We; Christians, who have seen that by the works of the law we cannot be justified, have given up dependence on obedience to it, and are trusting in the atonement and righteousness of Christ for salvation.

Are delivered from the law; not as a just measure of obligation, but as a ground of justification, and from liability to suffer its curse.

That being dead; the marginal reading, "being dead to that," is much to be preferred. It is a repetition of the idea that they are dead to the law, as in verse Romans 7:4.

That we should serve in newness of spirit; serve God not in external form merely, or from slavish fear, but in spirit and in truth, from love to God and his laws.

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