Romans 7:5-6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions, awakened by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit for death.(A) 6 But now we are released from the law, dead to what held us captive, so that we may serve in the newness of the spirit and not under the obsolete letter.(B)
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