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Romans 7:6

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7:6But now we have been released from the law, because we have died12 to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.13

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Footnotes

  1. 12 Grk “having died.” The participle ἀποθανόντες (apothanontes) has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.
  2. 13 Grk “in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

NIVNew International Version (2011)

But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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.

NLTNew Living Translation

But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to that by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter of the law.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.