 | Anthony A. Hoekema - 1975 - 160 pagini
...and death! What Paul says in 8:2, therefore, is actually a restatement of what he had said in 7:6, "But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit." These words obviously... | |
 | Johan Christiaan Beker - 484 pagini
...flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the oldness of the letter, but in the newness of the Spirit" (trans, mine).... | |
 | Thomas N. Hart - 1980 - 136 pagini
...he looks to the Spirit to help us make that commandment concrete in the circumstances of our lives. But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit (Rm 7:6). If we live... | |
 | Peter F. Ellis - 1982 - 302 pagini
...flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 'But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit. Commentary 7:1-3... | |
 | Allen Verhey - 1984 - 264 pagini
...Christians are also called to a new selfunderstanding; by their participation in Christ and his cross they are "discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit" (Rom. 7:6). Their... | |
 | Paul J. Achtemeier - 268 pagini
...now you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God." The same point is made in 7:6: "But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive (ie, the law)." If that is the state of the baptized Christian, dead to sin and freed from the law,... | |
 | Richard J. Hauser - 1986 - 114 pagini
...taught, that had now replaced the old written law as their fundamental guide in the spiritual life. But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code, but in the new life of the Spirit tRom 7:6, New American... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - 1987 - 532 pagini
...body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead. . . . Now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held up captive, so that we serve not under the old written code, but in the new life of the spirit" (Rom.... | |
 | Barnabas Lindars - 1988 - 236 pagini
...anathema of Gal 1:8f. For Paul, the transition from the old age to the new marked a radical break: 'but now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit' (Rome 7:6). Davies... | |
 | Jerome H. Neyrey - 1990 - 270 pagini
...another (7:1-3). Likewise, Christians once had a relationship with "the law"; but with the death of Jesus "we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive" (7:6). How important it is, then, to know the precise moment of death, namely, Christ's death. 5.5... | |
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But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit. 
