SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:6
Pero ahora somos libres de la ley de la muerte en la cual estbamos detenidos, para que sirvamos en novedad de Espíritu, y no en vejez de letra.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Romans 7:6
Verse 6. But now we are delivered from the law] We, who have believed in Christ Jesus, are delivered from that yoke by which we were bound, which sentenced every transgressor to perdition, but provided no pardon even for the penitent, and no sanctification for those who are weary of their inbred corruptions. That being dead wherein we were held] To us believers in Christ this commandment is abrogated; we are transferred to another constitution; that law which kills ceases to bind us; it is dead to us who have believed in Christ Jesus, who is the end of the law for justification and salvation to every one that believes.
That we should serve in newness of spirit] We are now brought under a more spiritual dispensation; now we know the spiritual import of all the Mosaic precepts. We see that the law referred to the Gospel, and can only be fulfilled by the Gospel.
The oldness of the letter.] The merely literal rites, ceremonies, and sacrifices are now done away; and the newness of the spirit, the true intent and meaning of all are now fully disclosed; so that we are got from an imperfect state into a state of perfection and excellence. We sought justification and sanctification, pardon and holiness, by the law, and have found that the law could not give them: we have sought these in the Gospel scheme, and we have found them. We serve God now, not according to the old literal sense, but in the true spiritual meaning.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. But now we are delivered from the law , etc..] From the ministration of it, by Moses; from it, as a covenant of works; from its rigorous exaction; from its curse and condemnation, all this by Christ; and from its being an irritating, provoking law to sin, through the corruption of nature, by the Spirit and grace of Christ; but not from obedience to it, as in the hands of Christ. The Vulgate Latin version, and some copies read, from the law of death; and the Ethiopic version renders it, we are loosed from the law, and are delivered from the former doctrine; the doctrine of the legal dispensation. That being dead ; not sin, but the law: in what sense believers are dead to the law, and that to them, (see Gill on Romans 7:4). Wherein we were held : as a woman is by the law to her husband, or as persons guilty, who are detained prisoners; so we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith, as in a prison, ( Galatians 3:23); Now the saints deliverance from the law through the abrogation of it, that losing its former life, vigour, power, and dominion, is not that they may live a loose licentious life and conversation, but that they should serve the Lord their God without slavish fear, and with a godly one, acceptably, in righteousness and holiness, all the days of their lives; and their Lord and Master Jesus Christ, who is King of saints, lawgiver in his church, and whose commandments are to be observed from a principle of love, in faith, and to his glory; yea, even the law itself, as held forth by him, as the apostle says in the close of this chapter, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, ( Romans 7:25): the manner in which this service is to be, and is performed, is, in newness of Spirit ; under the influences of the Spirit of God, the author of renovation, of the new creature, or new man created in us, in righteousness and true holiness; and from a new heart, and new Spirit, and new principles of life, light, love, and grace, formed in the soul; and by walking in newness of life, ( Romans 6:4), or by a new life, walk, and conversation: and not in the oldness of the letter ; not in the outward observance of the law of Moses, which is the letter; not indulging the old man, or walking after the dictates of corrupt nature; nor behaving according to the old former course of living: on the whole it may be observed, that a believer without the law, being delivered from it, that being dead to him, and he to that, lives a better life and conversation under the influence of the Spirit of God, than one that is under the law, and the works of it, destitute of the grace of God; the one brings forth fruit unto death, ( Romans 7:5), the other serves the Lord, in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - So long as a man continues under the law as a covenant, and seek justification by his own obedience, he continues the slave of sin in some form. Nothing but the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, can make an sinner free from the law of sin and death. Believers are delivered from that power of the law, which condemns for the sins committed by them And they are delivered from that power of the law which stirs up an provokes the sin that dwells in them. Understand this not of the law a a rule, but as a covenant of works. In profession and privilege, we ar under a covenant of grace, and not under a covenant of works; under the gospel of Christ, not under the law of Moses. The difference is spoke of under the similitude or figure of being married to a new husband The second marriage is to Christ. By death we are freed from obligatio to the law as a covenant, as the wife is from her vows to her husband In our believing powerfully and effectually, we are dead to the law and have no more to do with it than the dead servant, who is freed from his master, has to do with his master's yoke. The day of our believing is the day of being united to the Lord Jesus. We enter upon a life of dependence on him, and duty to him. Good works are from union with Christ; as the fruitfulness of the vine is the product of its being united to its roots; there is no fruit to God, till we are united to Christ. The law, and the greatest efforts of one under the law, stil in the flesh, under the power of corrupt principles, cannot set the heart right with regard to the love of God, overcome worldly lusts, or give truth and sincerity in the inward parts, or any thing that come by the special sanctifying influences of the Holy Spirit. Nothing mor than a formal obedience to the outward letter of any precept, can be performed by us, without the renewing, new-creating grace of the ne covenant.
Greek Textus Receptus
νυνι 3570 ADV δε 1161 CONJ κατηργηθημεν 2673 5681 V-API-1P απο 575 PREP του 3588 T-GSM νομου 3551 N-GSM {VAR1: αποθανοντες 599 5631 V-2AAP-NPM } {VAR2: αποθανοντος 599 5631 V-2AAP-GSM } εν 1722 PREP ω 3739 R-DSM κατειχομεθα 2722 5712 V-IPI-1P ωστε 5620 CONJ δουλευειν 1398 5721 V-PAN ημας 2248 P-1AP εν 1722 PREP καινοτητι 2538 N-DSF πνευματος 4151 N-GSN και 2532 CONJ ου 3756 PRT-N παλαιοτητι 3821 N-DSF γραμματος 1121 N-GSN
Vincent's NT Word Studies
6. We are delivered (kathrghqhmen). Rev., have been discharged, as the woman, ver. 2. See on ch. iii. 3.We were held. Lit., held down. See on ch. i. 18.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
7:6 {But now} (nuni de). In the new condition. {Wherein we were holden} (en hwi kateichometha). Imperfect passive of katecw, picture of our former state (same verb in #1:18). {In newness of spirit} (en kainoteti pneumatos). The death to the letter of the law (the old husband) has set us free to the new life in Christ. So Paul has shown again the obligation on us to live for Christ.
