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 3:23–25But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
• 2 Cor 3:6who also made us sufficient as servants 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 were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
• Rom 6:4We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
• Gal 4:4–5But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
• Gal 2:19–20For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
• Rom 6:14–15For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
• Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
• 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
• Gal 6:15For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
• Rom 12:2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• Rom 6:22But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
• Col 3:10and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
• Rom 7:1Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
• Rom 6:2May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
• Rom 2:27–29Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
• Rom 6:19I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
• Rom 1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
• Ezek 11:19I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
• Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
• Rom 6:11Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Ezek 36:26I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

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