• Romans 7:6
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures

    • 6 νυνὶ now δὲ but κατηργήθημεν we have been annulled ἀπὸ from τοῦ the νόμου, Law, ἀποθανόντες having died ἐν in ᾧ which κατειχόμεθα, we were being held down, ὥστε as-and δουλεύειν to be slaving ἡμᾶς us ἐν in καινότητι newness πνεύματος of spirit καὶ and οὐ not παλαιότητι to oldness γράμματος. of writing.

  • Romans 7:6
    The Bible in Living English

    • 6* but now we have been disengaged, having died, from the law in which we were held under, so that we serve in the new relation of spirit and not in the old relation of letter.

  • Romans 7:6
    American Standard Version

    • 6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

  • Romans 7:6
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 6 But now we have received full release from the law by dying [in that] wherein we used to be held fast, So that we should be doing service—In newness of spirit And not in obsoleteness of letter.

  • Romans 7:6
    King James Version

    • 6 But 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.

  • Romans Study Notes—Chapter 7
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

    • 7:6

      we have been released from the Law: At Ro 7:1-6, Paul uses an illustration to explain the release from the Mosaic Law experienced by Jewish Christians. A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, her situation changes. Her marriage to her husband is no longer valid, and she is free to marry another. This change in her situation is similar to the change a Christian experienced when he “died with reference to sin.” (Ro 6:2, 11) The Jewish Christians “were made dead to the Law through the body of the Christ,” which provided a ransom, allowing them to “become another’s,” that is, to come to belong to Christ. (Ro 7:4) Paul explains at Ga 3:13 that “Christ purchased us, releasing us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse instead of us.” The individual showing faith in Christ figuratively died to his former situation and was no longer under those old obligations. He could now become a slave “in a new sense.” (Ro 7:6) The person who died in such a way is, of course, still alive physically and is free to follow Christ as a slave to righteousness.​—Ro 6:18-20; Ga 5:1.

      be slaves: One translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures into Hebrew (referred to as J18 in App. C4) reads “be servants to Jehovah.”