Romans 7:6

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Summary

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

But

That being dead

Romans 7:1

Romans 6:2

Serve

Bible References

But

So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

For sin must no longer control you, for you live not under law but under mercy.

Christ ransomed us from the Law's curse by taking our curse upon himself (for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who is hung on a tree")

but when the proper time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, and made subject to law,

That being dead

Do you not know, brothers??or I am speaking to men who know what law is??hat law governs a man only as long as he lives?

Certainly not! When we have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer?

Serve

As God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in spreading the good news of his Son, I never fail to mention you when I pray,

And if, although they are physically uncircumcised, they obey the Law, they will condemn you, who break the Law, although you have it in writing, and are circumcised.

Through baptism we have been buried with him in death, so that just as he was raised from the dead through the Father's glory, we too may live a new life.

You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.

and he has qualified me to serve him in the interests of a new agreement, not in writing but of spirit. For what is written kills, but the Spirit gives life.

So if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being; the old state of things has passed away; there is a new state of things.

For it is through the Law that I have become dead to the Law, so that I may live for God.

For neither circumcision nor the want of it is of any importance, but only a new creation.

We are the true circumcision, who worship God by his Spirit, priding ourselves only on Christ Jesus, and not relying on physical advantages,

and have put on that new self newly made in the likeness of its Creator, to know him fully.