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.

But now we have been ^areleased from the Law, having ^bdied to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in ^cnewness of ^dthe ▼

▼Or spirit

Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

But now we have been released from the law, because we have died ▼

▼tn Grk “having died.” The participle ἀποθανόντες (apothanontes) has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.

to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code. ▼

▼tn Grk “in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.”