“But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.”
But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. — Death to the law through Christ liberates believers from the νόμος (nomos, "law") understood as ἐντολή (entolē, "commandment") or γραμμα (gramma, "written code"). The shift is not from obedience to lawlessness but from external regulation (γράμμα, gramma) to the Spirit's interior governance (πνευματικῶς, pneumatikōs, "spiritually"). Service to God continues but under a new economy.
Church Fathers on Romans 7:6
“But now,” he says, “we are delivered from the Law.” (κατηργήθημεν, “made of no effect.”) See how he again in this place spares the flesh and the Law. For he does not say that the Law was made of no effect, or that the flesh was made of no effect, but that we were made of no effect (i.e., were delivered). And how were we delivered? Why by the old man, who was held down by sin, being dead and buried. For this is what he sets forth in the words, “being dead to that, wherein we…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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