6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
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But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. …
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Among other arguments used in the foregoing chapter to persuade us against sin, and to holiness, this was one (Rom. 6:14), that we are not under the law ; and this argument is here further insisted upon and explained (Rom. 7:6): We are delivered from the law . What is meant by this? And how is it an argument why sin should not reign over us, and why we should walk in newness of life? 1. We are del…
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