Romans 7:6

Now released from the law that bound us, we serve God in the new way of the Spirit, not the old way of the written code. Our obedience flows from new-covenant life, not external regulation.

Cross-references · 22

• Gal 3:23–25Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.
• 2 Cor 3:6And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
• Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
• Rom 6:4We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
• Gal 4:4–5But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• Gal 2:19–20For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
• Rom 6:14–15For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
• Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
• 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
• Gal 6:15For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
• Rom 12:2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• Rom 6:22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
• Col 3:10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
• Rom 7:1Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?
• Rom 6:2Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
• Rom 2:27–29The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.
• Rom 6:19I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
• Rom 1:9God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you
• Ezek 11:19And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
• Phil 3:3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
• Rom 6:11So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
• Ezek 36:26I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Greek word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.