^{4 Ref} So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

^{5 Ref} for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that `are' through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

^{6 Ref} and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

^{7 Ref} What, then, shall we say? the law `is' sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

^{4 Ref} In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

^{5 Ref} For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

^{6 Ref} But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

^{7 Ref} What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

^{4 Ref} Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, `even' to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

^{5 Ref} For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

^{6 Ref} 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.

^{7 Ref} What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet: