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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)

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24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross,[a] so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds[b] you have been healed.(A)

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  1. 2.24 Or carried up our sins in his body to the tree
  2. 2.24 Gk bruise

The Fruit of the Spirit

22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,(A) 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.

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For your Maker is your husband;
    the Lord of hosts is his name;
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
    the God of the whole earth he is called.(A)

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

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.(A)

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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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15 abolishing the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace,(A)

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19 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,(A) 20 and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,[a] who loved me and gave himself for me.(B)

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  1. 2.20 Or by faith in the Son of God

22 But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.(A)

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14 erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross.

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22 he has now reconciled[a] in his fleshly body[b] through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him,(A)

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  1. 1.22 Other ancient authorities read you have now been reconciled
  2. 1.22 Gk in the body of his flesh

10 so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God.(A)

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