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Romans 7:5-6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
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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Romans 7:5-6
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Romans 7:5-6
New International Version
5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh,[a](A) the sinful passions aroused by the law(B) were at work in us,(C) so that we bore fruit for death.(D) 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law(E) so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.(F)
Footnotes
- Romans 7:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
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