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We know that these things are true. Because of what Christ has done, we trust God to help us. We know that we cannot do this work by ourselves. We never think that. But God makes us able to do it. God has made us his servants. So we are able to tell people the message of his new agreement. This new agreement is not about rules. Rules tell people what they must do and they bring death. But God's new agreement comes from his Spirit. And the Spirit brings new life to us, not death.[a]

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  1. 3:6 This does not mean that God's rules themselves caused people to die. People saw that they were not good enough to obey those rules completely. So they could not, by themselves, please God. They needed God himself to save them from sin and death.