Romans 7:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 6:4 : 4 We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
  • Gal 4:4-5 : 4 But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:
  • Col 3:10 : 10 And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;
  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.
  • Gal 2:19-20 : 19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God. 20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:
  • Gal 3:23-25 : 23 But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come. 24 So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith. 25 But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a servant.
  • Rom 6:11 : 11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
  • Rom 6:14-15 : 14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace. 15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
  • Rom 6:19 : 19 I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
  • Rom 6:22 : 22 But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.
  • Rom 7:1 : 1 Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?
  • Ezek 11:19 : 19 And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:
  • Ezek 36:26 : 26 And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.
  • Rom 1:9 : 9 For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,
  • Rom 2:27-29 : 27 And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision. 28 The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Rom 7:1-5
    5 verses
    82%

    1 Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

    2 For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

    3 So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.

    4 In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

    5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

  • Rom 8:1-4
    4 verses
    81%

    1 For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.

    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

    3 For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:

    4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

  • Rom 6:6-8
    3 verses
    81%

    6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

    7 Because he who is dead is free from sin.

    8 But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;

  • Rom 7:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13 Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.

    14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

  • Rom 7:7-11
    5 verses
    78%

    7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

    8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

    9 And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

    10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:

    11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.

  • 2 Cor 3:6-7
    2 verses
    78%

    6 Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.

    7 For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:

  • Gal 2:19
    77%

    19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

  • Rom 6:14-18
    5 verses
    76%

    14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

    15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

    16 Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

    17 But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;

    18 And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

  • Rom 6:20
    76%

    20 When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

  • Rom 6:22
    75%

    22 But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

  • Gal 5:18
    75%

    18 But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • Gal 5:1
    75%

    1 Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

  • Rom 7:23-25
    3 verses
    75%

    23 But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

    24 How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

    25 I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.

  • Rom 6:2
    74%

    2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

  • Rom 8:12
    74%

    12 So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

  • Gal 3:23-25
    3 verses
    74%

    23 But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come.

    24 So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.

    25 But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a servant.

  • Rom 6:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.

    11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

  • Col 2:20
    73%

    20 If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

  • Rom 6:4
    73%

    4 We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.

  • Gal 2:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

    17 But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

  • Rom 7:17
    72%

    17 So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

  • Gal 5:4
    71%

    4 You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

  • 2 Cor 5:16
    71%

    16 For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.

  • Rom 3:28
    71%

    28 For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.

  • Gal 5:13
    71%

    13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.