in which you have been instructed.
006:018 You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became
the bondservants of Righteousness--
006:019 your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures--
and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage
to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law, so you
must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever
advancing towards perfect holiness.
006:020 For when you were the bondservants of sin, you were under no
sort of subjection to Righteousness.
006:021 At that time, then, what benefit did you get from conduct
which you now regard with shame? Why, such things finally
result in death.
006:022 But now that you have been set free from the tyranny of Sin,
and have become the bondservants of God, you have your reward
in being made holy, and you have the Life of the Ages
as the final result.
006:023 For the wages paid by Sin are death; but God's free gift is
the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.
007:001 Brethren, do you not know--for I am writing to people acquainted
with the Law--that it is during our lifetime that we are
subject to the Law?
007:002 A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him
by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her
to him has now no hold over her.
007:003 This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she
lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress;
but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under
the old prohibition, and even though she marries again,
she is not an adulteress.