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, my brothers, you have also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you should be married to another, to him that was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

For sin shall not have a Lordship over you; for you are not under the law but under the grace.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree,

but when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

That being dead

ARE you ignorant, brothers, for I speak to them who understand law, that the law has authority over a man as long as he lives?

By no means. How shall we who died to sin any longer live in it?

Serve

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

And the uncircumcision by nature which keeps the law shall judge you who with the written law and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.

We have been buried therefore with him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the writing but of the spirit; for the writing kills, but the spirit makes alive.

So that if any one is in Christ he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

For by a law I have died to the law, that I may live to God.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

We are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and trust not in the flesh,

and put on the new man, renewed in knowledge in the likeness of him that created him,