Romans 7:6

God's Word

But now we have died to those laws that bound us. God has broken their effect on us so that we are serving in a new spiritual way, not in an old way dictated by written words.

Cross References

Ezekiel 11:19

I will give them a single purpose and put a new spirit in them. I will remove their stubborn hearts and give them obedient hearts.

Ezekiel 36:26

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove your stubborn hearts and give you obedient hearts.

Romans 1:9

I serve God by spreading the Good News about his Son. God is my witness that I always mention you

Romans 12:2

Don’t become like the people of this world. Instead, change the way you think. Then you will always be able to determine what God really wants—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.

Romans 6:11

So consider yourselves dead to sin’s power but living for God in the power Christ Jesus gives you.

Romans 6:19

I’m speaking in a human way because of the weakness of your corrupt nature. Clearly, you once offered all the parts of your body as slaves to sexual perversion and disobedience. This led you to live disobedient lives. Now, in the same way, offer all the parts of your body as slaves that do what God approves of. This leads you to live holy lives.

Romans 6:2

That’s unthinkable! As far as sin is concerned, we have died. So how can we still live under sin’s influence?

Romans 6:22

Now you have been freed from sin and have become God’s slaves. This results in a holy life and, finally, in everlasting life.

Romans 6:4

When we were baptized into his death, we were placed into the tomb with him. As Christ was brought back from death to life by the glorious power of the Father, so we, too, should live a new kind of life.

Romans 7:1

Don’t you realize, brothers and sisters, that laws have power over people only as long as they are alive? (I’m speaking to people who are familiar with Moses’ Teachings.)

Romans 7:2

For example, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he is alive. But if her husband dies, that marriage law is no longer in effect for her.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, brothers and sisters, you have died to the laws in Moses’ Teachings through Christ’s body. You belong to someone else, the one who was brought back to life. As a result, we can do what God wants.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He has also qualified us to be ministers of a new promise, a spiritual promise, not a written one. Clearly, what was written brings death, but the Spirit brings life.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Whoever is a believer in Christ is a new creation. The old way of living has disappeared. A new way of living has come into existence.

Galatians 3:13

Christ paid the price to free us from the curse that the laws in Moses’ Teachings bring by becoming cursed instead of us. Scripture says, “Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.”

Galatians 6:15

Certainly, it doesn’t matter whether a person is circumcised or not. Rather, what matters is being a new creation.

Ephesians 4:24

You were also taught to become a new person created to be like God, with a life that truly has God’s approval and is holy.

Philippians 3:3

We are the ⌞true⌟ circumcised people ⌞of God⌟ because we serve God’s Spirit and take pride in Christ Jesus. We don’t place any confidence in physical things,

Colossians 3:10

and you’ve become a new person. This new person is continually renewed in knowledge to be like its Creator.