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So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God. When we were controlled by our old nature,[a] sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death. But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.

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  1. 7:5 Greek When we were in the flesh.

So then hōste, my egō brothers adelphos, you hymeis also kai have died thanatoō to the ho law nomos through dia the ho body sōma of ho Christ Christos that eis you hymeis might belong ginomai to another heteros, to the ho one who was raised egeirō from ek the dead nekros, so hina that we might bear karpophoreō fruit for ho God theos. For gar while hote we were eimi living in en the ho flesh sarx, our ho sinful hamartia passions pathēma, · ho · ho aroused energeō by dia the ho law nomos, were at work in en · ho our hēmeis bodies melos to eis bear karpophoreō fruit for ho death thanatos. But de now nyni we have been released katargeō from apo the ho law nomos, having died apothnēskō to en that which hos held katechō us captive , so hōste that we hēmeis serve douleuō in en newness kainotēs of the Spirit pneuma and kai not ou under the old palaiotēs written gramma code .

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