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14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.(A)

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14 For sin shall no longer be your master,(A) because you are not under the law,(B) but under grace.(C)

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18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law.(A)

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18 But if you are led by the Spirit,(A) you are not under the law.(B)

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For the law of the Spirit[a] of life in Christ Jesus has set you[b] free from the law of sin and of death.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 8.2 Or spirit
  2. 8.2 Gk you is singular; other ancient authorities read me or us

because through Christ Jesus(A) the law of the Spirit who gives life(B) has set you[a] free(C) from the law of sin(D) and death.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:2 The Greek is singular; some manuscripts me

10 This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
    after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their minds
    and write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.(A)

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10 This is the covenant(A) I will establish with the people of Israel
    after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
    and write them on their hearts.(B)
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.(C)

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But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,(A) in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children.(B)

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But when the set time had fully come,(A) God sent his Son,(B) born of a woman,(C) born under the law,(D) to redeem(E) those under the law, that we might receive adoption(F) to sonship.[a](G)

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:5 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a legal term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture.

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies, so that you obey their desires.(A)

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12 Therefore do not let sin reign(A) in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

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who has made us qualified to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.(A)

Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets,[a] came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’s face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside,(B) how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation,[b] much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory!(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.7 Gk on stones
  2. 3.9 Other ancient authorities read If the ministry of condemnation constituted glory

He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant(A)—not of the letter(B) but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.(C)

The Greater Glory of the New Covenant

Now if the ministry that brought death,(D) which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory,(E) transitory though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? If the ministry that brought condemnation(F) was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!(G)

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In the same way, my brothers and sisters, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.(A) For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.(B) But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are enslaved in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the written code.(C)

The Law and Sin

What then are we to say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”(D) But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law sin lies dead.(E) I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived 10 and I died, and the very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.(F) 11 For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

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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. 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) 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)

The Law and Sin

What shall we say, then?(J) Is the law sinful? Certainly not!(K) Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law.(L) For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”[b](M) But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,(N) produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.(O) Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life(P) actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,(Q) deceived me,(R) and through the commandment put me to death.

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. Romans 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21

12 So then, brothers and sisters, we are obligated, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—

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12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.(A)

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20 But law came in, so that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,(A) 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so grace might also reign through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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20 The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase.(A) But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,(B) 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death,(C) so also grace(D) might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life(E) through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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19 Now we know that, whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.(A) 20 For no human will be justified before him by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.(B)

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19 Now we know that whatever the law says,(A) it says to those who are under the law,(B) so that every mouth may be silenced(C) and the whole world held accountable to God.(D) 20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law;(E) rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.(F)

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36 So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

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36 So if the Son sets you free,(A) you will be free indeed.

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17 The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.(A)

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17 For the law was given through Moses;(A) grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.(B)

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