⁴ Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death^(A) in relation to the law^(B) through the body of Christ^(C) so that you may belong to another. You belong to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God. ⁵ For when we were in the flesh,^(D) the sinful passions aroused through the law were working in us^[a](E) to bear fruit for death. ⁶ But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the newness of the Spirit^(F) and not in the old letter of the law.