¹⁸ So then, as through ^(A)one offense ^[a]the result was condemnation to all mankind, so also through one ^(B)act of righteousness ^[b]the result was ^(C)justification of life to all mankind.

⁴ Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were ^(A)put to death ^(B)in regard to the Law ^(C)through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

⁶ But now we have been ^(A)released from the Law, having ^(B)died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in ^(C)newness of ^(D)the ^[a]Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

Slave and Free

²¹ Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not ^(A)listen to the Law?