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Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death. But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

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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. 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. 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.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:5 Lit in our members