⁷ because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.^(A)

⁸ Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.^{(B) 9} For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead,^(C) he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.^{(D) 10} The death he died, he died to sin^(E) once for all;^(F) but the life he lives, he lives to God.

¹¹ In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin^(G) but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Freedom in Christ

5 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.^(A) Stand firm,^(B) then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.^(C)

Life by the Spirit

¹³ You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free.^(A) But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh^[a];^(B) rather, serve one another^(C) humbly in love. ¹⁴ For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”^{[b](D) 15} If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

¹⁶ So I say, walk by the Spirit,^(E) and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.^{(F) 17} For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh.^(G) They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever^[c] you want.^{(H) 18} But if you are led by the Spirit,^(I) you are not under the law.^(J)