7:4 You have been made dead with regard to the Torah. It is not the Torah that has been made dead, nor is a believer made dead in the sense of no longer responding to its truth. Rather, the believer has been made dead, not to all of Torah but to three aspects of it: (1) its capacity to stir up sin in him (vv. 5–14); (2) its capacity to produce irremediable guilt feelings (vv. 15–25); and (3) its penalties, punishments, and curses (8:1–4). Here the primary reference, however, has to do with being