Romans 7:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are enslaved in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the written code.

Cross References

Ezekiel 11:19

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

Ezekiel 36:26

A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you, and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Romans 1:9

For God, whom I serve with my spirit by announcing the gospel of his Son, is my witness that without ceasing I remember you always in my prayers,

Romans 12:2

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

Romans 6:11

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms because of your limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, leading to even more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.

Romans 6:2

By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

Romans 6:4

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

Romans 7:1

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only during that person’s lifetime?

Romans 7:2

Thus a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers and sisters, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has made us qualified to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 5:17

So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being!

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—

Galatians 6:15

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything, but a new creation is everything!

Ephesians 4:24

and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Philippians 3:3

For it is we who are the circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh—

Colossians 3:10

and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator.