Romans 7:7

"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."

Key Reflection

This passage signifies that believers are freed from the legal obligations of the Old Testament covenant, having died to its restrictive demands. Instead, they now live according to the Spirit's guidance, focusing on serving God in a renewed and spiritual manner rather than merely following the ceremonial laws.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 7. What shall we say then? The objection which is here urged is one that would very naturally rise, and which we may suppose would be urged with no slight indignation. The Jew would ask, "Are we then to suppose that the holy law of God is not only insufficient to sanctify us, but that it is the mere occasion of increased sin? Is its tendency to produce sinful passions, and to make men worse than they were before?" To this objection the apostle replies with great wisdom, by showing that the evil was not in the law, but in man; that though these effects often followed, yet that the law itself was good and pure.

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