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Released from the Law to Serve in the Spirit

Romans 7:1-6

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Chapter 7
1 Or do you not know, brothers—for I speak to those who know the law—that the law lords over the man for as long as he lives? 2 For a wife is bound by law to a living husband; but if the husband dies, she is released from the law of the husband. 3 Therefore, if the husband is living, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes the wife of another man; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she has become the wife of another man. 4 So, my brothers, you also have died to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, the one raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, those through the law, worked in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But now we are released from the Law, having died to that in which we were held, so as to serve in newness of spirit and not oldness of letter.