Romans 7:6

The English Standar Version

But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.

Cross References

Ezekiel 11:19

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

Ezekiel 36:26

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

Romans 1:9

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world,[3] but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.[4]

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 natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to 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 still live in it?

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

Romans 6:4

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

Romans 7:1

Or do you not know, brothers[1] -- for I am speaking to those who know the law -- that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?

Romans 7:2

Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.[2]

Romans 7:4

Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has made us competent[3] to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.[2] The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

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 is hanged on a tree" --

Galatians 6:15

For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

Ephesians 4:24

and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Philippians 3:3

For we are the real circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God[2] and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh --

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.