Romans 7:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

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  • Rom 6:4 : 4 we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 who also made us sufficient `to be' ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it?
  • Gal 4:4-5 : 4 and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law, 5 that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;
  • Gal 6:15 : 15 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,
  • Col 3:10 : 10 and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;
  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 so that if any one `is' in Christ -- `he is' a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.
  • Gal 2:19-20 : 19 for I through law, did die, that to God I may live; 20 with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'
  • Gal 3:23-25 : 23 And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed, 24 so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous, 25 and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,
  • Rom 6:11 : 11 so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 6:14-15 : 14 for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!
  • Rom 6:19 : 19 In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness -- to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness -- to sanctification,
  • Rom 6:22 : 22 And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit -- to sanctification, and the end life age-during;
  • Rom 7:1 : 1 Are ye ignorant, brethren -- for to those knowing law I speak -- that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?
  • Ezek 11:19 : 19 And I have given to them one heart, And a new spirit I do give in your midst, And I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, And I have given to them a heart of flesh.
  • Ezek 36:26 : 26 And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh.
  • Rom 1:9 : 9 for God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,
  • Rom 2:27-29 : 27 and the uncircumcision, by nature, fulfilling the law, shall judge thee who, through letter and circumcision, `art' a transgressor of law. 28 For he is not a Jew who is `so' outwardly, neither `is' circumcision that which is outward in flesh; 29 but a Jew `is' he who is `so' inwardly, and circumcision `is' of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

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  • Rom 7:1-5
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    1Are ye ignorant, brethren -- for to those knowing law I speak -- that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

    2for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

    3so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

    4So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

    5for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that `are' through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

  • Rom 8:1-4
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    1There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

    2for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

    3for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

    4that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

  • Rom 6:6-8
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    6this knowing, that our old man was crucified with `him', that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

    7for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.

    8And if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall live with him,

  • Rom 7:13-14
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    13That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,

    14for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

  • Rom 7:7-11
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    7What, then, shall we say? the law `is' sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

    8`Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead.

    9And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

    10and the command that `is' for life, this was found by me for death;

    11for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay `me';

  • 2 Cor 3:6-7
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    6who also made us sufficient `to be' ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

    7and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless,

  • Gal 2:19
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    19for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;

  • Rom 6:14-18
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    14for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

    15What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

    16have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

    17and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and -- were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

    18and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.

  • Rom 6:20
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    20for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,

  • Rom 6:22
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    22And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit -- to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

  • Gal 5:18
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    18and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.

  • Gal 5:1
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    1In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

  • Rom 7:23-25
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    23and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that `is' in my members.

    24A wretched man I `am'! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

    25I thank God -- through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.

  • Rom 6:2
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    2let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it?

  • Rom 8:12
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    12So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

  • Gal 3:23-25
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    23And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,

    24so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,

    25and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,

  • Rom 6:10-11
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    10for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;

    11so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Col 2:20
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    20If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

  • Rom 6:4
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    4we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

    17And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, `is' then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!

  • Rom 7:17
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    17and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me,

  • Gal 5:4
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    4ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

  • 2 Cor 5:16
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    16So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

  • Rom 3:28
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    28therefore do we reckon a man to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.

  • Gal 5:13
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    13For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,