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Romans 7:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the newness of the Spirit  and not in the old letter of the law.

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He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant,  not of the letter,  but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.


Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death  in relation to the law  through the body of Christ  so that you may belong to another. You belong to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.


Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death,  in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead  by the glory of the Father,  so we too may walk in newness  of life.


Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us,  because it is written, Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.   ,


and have put on  the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your  Creator.


For  both circumcision and uncircumcision  mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.


Do not be conformed  to this age,  but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,  so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will  of God.


But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God,  you have your fruit, which results in sanctification   #– #and the outcome is eternal life!


Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;  the old has passed away, and see,  the new has  come!


Since I am speaking to those who know the law, brothers and sisters,  don’t you know that the law rules over someone as long as he lives?


Absolutely not!  How can we who died to sin  still live in it?


I am using a human analogy  because of the weakness of your flesh.  For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.


So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin  and alive to God in Christ Jesus.


God is my witness,  whom I serve with my spirit  in telling the good news about his Son #– #that I constantly mention you,


I will give them integrity of  heart  and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone  from their bodies  and give them a heart of flesh,


For we are the circumcision,  the ones who worship by the Spirit  of God, boast in Christ Jesus,  and do not put confidence in the flesh #– #


I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you;  I will remove your heart of stone  and give you a heart of flesh.


For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives.  But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband.


and to put on  , the new self, the one created  according to God’s likeness  in righteousness and purity of the truth.





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