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Romans 7:4-6
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
Romans 7:4-6
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
We Have Died To The Law In Christ
4 So-then[a], my brothers, you also were put-to-death with reference to the Law[b] through the body of Christ so that you might come[c] to a different One— to the One having arisen from the dead— in order that we might bear-fruit for God.
Having Died, We Are Released From The Law Through Which Sin Produced Death
5 For when we were in the flesh[d], the passions of [e] sins which[f] were through[g] the Law were at-work in our body-parts so as to bear-fruit for death. 6 But now we were released[h] from the Law, having died to that by which we were being held, so that we are serving in newness of the Spirit[i] and not in oldness of the letter[j].
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- Romans 7:4 Now Paul applies to us the principle of v 1, illustrated by v 2-3, that death ends the authority of the Law.
- Romans 7:4 That is, God’s Law as the terms and conditions of which we must be doers (2:13) to have a relationship with Him. Christ did not need to die to release us from our legalism or man’s civil law or law in general, but from God’s objective standards.
- Romans 7:4 Same word as twice in the illustrations in v 3. It is not the normal word for ‘marry’, but that is the idea in v 3-4.
- Romans 7:5 That is, before we died with Christ.
- Romans 7:5 That is, leading to; or, belonging to (sin’s passions).
- Romans 7:5 That is, the passions... which.
- Romans 7:5 That is, were increased through the Law, 5:20. Paul explains this next in v 7-8.
- Romans 7:6 Same word as in v 2.
- Romans 7:6 Or, of spirit.
- Romans 7:6 That is, the written code of the Law.
Romans 7:4-6
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Romans 7:4-6
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4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law(A) through the body of Christ,(B) that you might belong to another,(C) to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh,[a](D) the sinful passions aroused by the law(E) were at work in us,(F) so that we bore fruit for death.(G) 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law(H) so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.(I)
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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