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Romans 7:6

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.

KJV

νυνὶ δὲ κατηργήθημεν ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου, ἀποθανόντες ἐν ᾧ κατειχόμεθα, ὥστε δουλεύειν ἡμᾶς ἐν καινότητι πνεύματος καὶ οὐ παλαιότητι γράμματος.

Greek NT

Nunc autem soluti sumus a lege mortis, in qua detinebamur, ita ut serviamus in novitate spiritus, et non in vetustate litteræ.

Vulgate

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.

ASV

But now we are loosed from the law of death wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γράμμα
gramma
noun · 14×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δουλεύω
douleuo
verb · 25×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καινότης
kainotes
noun · 2×
κατέχω
katecho
verb · 17×
καταργέω
katargeo
verb · 27×
νυνί
nuni
adverb · 21×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
παλαιότης
palaiotes
noun · 1×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
ἀποθνήσκω
apothnesko
verb · 112×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὥστε
oste
conjunction · 85×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210212.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 2:24 — Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
  • 2Cor 3:6 — 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.
  • 2Cor 3:6 — 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.
  • 2Cor 5:17 — Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
  • 2Cor 5:17 — Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
  • Col 3:10 — And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
  • Ezek 11:19 — And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
  • Gal 2:19 — For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
  • Gal 2:19 — For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
  • Gal 3:13 — Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
  • Gal 3:23 — But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
  • Gal 4:4 — But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
  • Gal 5:1 — Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
  • Gal 6:15 — For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
  • Phil 3:3 — For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
  • Phil 3:3 — For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
  • Rom 1:9 — For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
  • Rom 2:27 — And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
  • Rom 2:27 — And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
  • Rom 2:29 — But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
  • Rom 6:2 — God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
  • Rom 6:2 — God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
  • Rom 6:4 — 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.
  • Rom 6:4 — 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.
  • Rom 6:11 — Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 6:14 — For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
  • Rom 6:19 — I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servan
  • Rom 6:22 — But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
  • Rom 7:1 — Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
  • Rom 7:1 — Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
  • Rom 7:4 — 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 G
  • Rom 7:4 — 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 G
  • Rom 7:9 — For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
  • Rom 12:2 — And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.