Romans 7:9 I was once alive without [knowledge of] the Law; but when the commandment came [and I understood its meaning], sin became alive and I died [since the Law sen...

7:9 AMP

逐节对照

Amplified Bible - I was once alive without [knowledge of] the Law; but when the commandment came [and I understood its meaning], sin became alive and I died [since the Law sentenced me to death].
新标点和合本 - 我以前没有律法是活着的；但是诫命来到，罪又活了，我就死了。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 以前没有律法的时候，我是活的；但是诫命来到，罪活起来，
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 以前没有律法的时候，我是活的；但是诫命来到，罪活起来，
当代译本 - 从前没有律法的时候，我是活的，但诫命来了之后，罪就活了，而我却死了。
圣经新译本 - 在没有律法的时候，我是活的；但诫命一来，罪就活了，我就死了。
中文标准译本 - 我从前活在律法之外，但是诫命一来，罪就活起来了，
现代标点和合本 - 我以前没有律法是活着的，但是诫命来到，罪又活了，我就死了。
和合本（拼音版） - 我以前没有律法，是活着的；但是诫命来到，罪又活了，我就死了。
New International Version - Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
New International Reader's Version - Before I knew about the law, I was alive. But then the commandment came. Sin came to life, and I died.
English Standard Version - I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.
New Living Translation - At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life,
Christian Standard Bible - Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life again
New American Standard Bible - I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life, and I died;
New King James Version - I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
American Standard Version - And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
King James Version - For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
New English Translation - And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive
World English Bible - I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
新標點和合本 - 我以前沒有律法是活着的；但是誡命來到，罪又活了，我就死了。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 以前沒有律法的時候，我是活的；但是誡命來到，罪活起來，
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 以前沒有律法的時候，我是活的；但是誡命來到，罪活起來，
當代譯本 - 從前沒有律法的時候，我是活的，但誡命來了之後，罪就活了，而我卻死了。
聖經新譯本 - 在沒有律法的時候，我是活的；但誡命一來，罪就活了，我就死了。
呂振中譯本 - 從前在律法以外、我活着；誡命一來到，罪活了起來，我就死了。
中文標準譯本 - 我從前活在律法之外，但是誡命一來，罪就活起來了，
現代標點和合本 - 我以前沒有律法是活著的，但是誡命來到，罪又活了，我就死了。
文理和合譯本 - 昔我無律而生、誡至、罪復生而我死、
文理委辦譯本 - 故昔未有法而我生、誡至、惡生而我死、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 昔我無律法而生、誡至、罪生而我死、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 我生之初尚無法、誡命一至、罪於是乎生、而我於是乎死矣。
Nueva Versión Internacional - En otro tiempo yo tenía vida aparte de la ley; pero, cuando vino el mandamiento, cobró vida el pecado y yo morí.
현대인의 성경 - 내가 한때는 율법 없이 살았습니다. 그러나 계명을 알게 되자 죄는 살아나고 나는 죽었습니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Я когда-то жил, не зная Закона, но когда я узнал повеление, то грех во мне ожил,
Восточный перевод - Я когда-то жил, не зная Закона, но когда я узнал повеление Всевышнего, грех во мне ожил,
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Я когда-то жил, не зная Закона, но когда я узнал повеление Аллаха, грех во мне ожил,
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Я когда-то жил, не зная Закона, но когда я узнал повеление Всевышнего, грех во мне ожил,
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Pour ma part, autrefois sans la Loi, je vivais, mais quand le commandement est intervenu, le péché a pris vie,
リビングバイブル - 私は、律法が何を要求しているかを知らなかった時には罪の自覚がありませんでした。しかし真実がわかった時、自分が律法を破っており、死を宣告された罪人であることがはっきりわかりました。
Nestle Aland 28 - ἐγὼ δὲ ἔζων χωρὶς νόμου ποτέ, ἐλθούσης δὲ τῆς ἐντολῆς ἡ ἁμαρτία ἀνέζησεν,
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἐγὼ δὲ ἔζων χωρὶς νόμου ποτέ; ἐλθούσης δὲ τῆς ἐντολῆς, ἡ ἁμαρτία ἀνέζησεν,
Nova Versão Internacional - Antes eu vivia sem a Lei, mas, quando o mandamento veio, o pecado reviveu, e eu morri.
Hoffnung für alle - Früher habe ich ohne das Gesetz gelebt. Erst seit das Gesetz mit seinen Geboten in die Welt kam, wurde auch die Sünde in mir lebendig,
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Khi chưa có luật pháp, tôi sống, nhưng khi có luật pháp rồi, quyền lực tội lỗi sống,
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ครั้งหนึ่งข้าพเจ้าดำเนินชีวิตโดยไม่มีบทบัญญัติ แต่พอมีพระบัญญัติ บาปก็มีชีวิตขึ้นมาและข้าพเจ้าก็ตาย
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เมื่อก่อน ข้าพเจ้าเคยดำรงชีวิตอยู่ขณะที่ไม่มีกฎบัญญัติ แต่เมื่อมีพระบัญญัติขึ้น บาปก็กลับมีชีวิตขึ้น และข้าพเจ้าก็ตาย

交叉引用

Matthew 15:4 - For God said [through Moses], ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of or insults or treats improperly father or mother is to be put to death.’
Matthew 15:5 - But you say, ‘If anyone says to his father or mother, “Whatever [money or resource that] I have that would help you is [already dedicated and] given to God,”
Matthew 15:6 - he is not to honor his father or his mother [by helping them with their need].’ So by this you have invalidated the word of God [depriving it of force and authority and making it of no effect] for the sake of your tradition [handed down by the elders].
Luke 10:25 - And a certain lawyer [an expert in Mosaic Law] stood up to test Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 10:26 - Jesus said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”
Luke 10:27 - And he replied, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:28 - Jesus said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this habitually and you will live.”
Luke 10:29 - But he, wishing to justify and vindicate himself, asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
Luke 18:21 - He replied, “I have kept all these things from my youth.”
Mark 7:8 - You disregard and neglect the commandment of God, and cling [faithfully] to the tradition of men.”
Mark 7:9 - He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside and nullifying the commandment of God in order to keep your [man-made] tradition and regulations.
Mark 7:10 - For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother [with respect and gratitude]’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of his father or mother must be put to death’;
Mark 7:11 - but you [Pharisees and scribes] say, ‘If a man tells his father or mother, “Whatever I have that would help you is Corban, (that is to say, already a gift to God),” ’
Mark 7:12 - then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother [since helping them would violate his vow of Corban];
Mark 7:13 - so you nullify the [authority of the] word of God [acting as if it did not apply] because of your tradition which you have handed down [through the elders]. And you do many things such as that.”
Psalms 40:12 - For innumerable evils have encompassed me; My sins have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see. They are more numerous than the hairs of my head, And my heart has failed me.
Matthew 19:20 - The young man said to Him, “I have kept all these things [from my youth]; what do I still lack?”
Matthew 5:21 - “You have heard that it was said to the men of old, ‘You shall not murder,’ and ‘Whoever murders shall be guilty before the court.’
Matthew 5:22 - But I say to you that everyone who continues to be angry with his brother or harbors malice against him shall be guilty before the court; and whoever speaks [contemptuously and insultingly] to his brother, ‘Raca (You empty-headed idiot)!’ shall be guilty before the supreme court (Sanhedrin); and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fiery hell.
Matthew 5:23 - So if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and while there you remember that your brother has something [such as a grievance or legitimate complaint] against you,
Matthew 5:24 - leave your offering there at the altar and go. First make peace with your brother, and then come and present your offering.
Matthew 5:25 - Come to terms quickly [at the earliest opportunity] with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way [to court], so that your opponent does not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you are thrown into prison.
Matthew 5:26 - I assure you and most solemnly say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid the last cent.
Luke 15:29 - But he said to his father, ‘Look! These many years I have served you, and I have never neglected or disobeyed your command. Yet you have never given me [so much as] a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;
Philippians 3:5 - circumcised when I was eight days old, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews [an exemplary Hebrew]; as to the [observance of the] Law, a Pharisee;
Philippians 3:6 - as to my zeal [for Jewish tradition], a persecutor of the church; and as to righteousness [supposed right living] which [my fellow Jews believe] is in the Law, I proved myself blameless.
Galatians 2:19 - For through the Law I died to the Law and its demands on me [because salvation is provided through the death and resurrection of Christ], so that I might [from now on] live to God.
Romans 8:7 - the mind of the flesh [with its sinful pursuits] is actively hostile to God. It does not submit itself to God’s law, since it cannot,
James 2:10 - For whoever keeps the whole Law but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of [breaking] all of it.
James 2:11 - For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you have become guilty of transgressing the [entire] Law.
Romans 7:21 - So I find it to be the law [of my inner self], that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
Romans 7:22 - For I joyfully delight in the law of God in my inner self [with my new nature],
Romans 7:23 - but I see a different law and rule of action in the members of my body [in its appetites and desires], waging war against the law of my mind and subduing me and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is within my members.
Romans 7:4 - Therefore, my fellow believers, you too died to the Law through the [crucified] body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
Romans 7:11 - For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, beguiled and completely deceived me, and using it as a weapon killed me [separating me from God].
Luke 18:9 - He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves and were confident that they were righteous [posing outwardly as upright and in right standing with God], and who viewed others with contempt:
Luke 18:10 - “Two men went up into the temple [enclosure] to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
Luke 18:11 - The Pharisee stood [ostentatiously] and began praying to himself [in a self-righteous way, saying]: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the rest of men—swindlers, unjust (dishonest), adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
Luke 18:12 - I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’
Romans 7:6 - But now we have been released from the Law and its penalty, having died [through Christ] to that by which we were held captive, so that we serve [God] in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter [of the Law].
Romans 3:19 - Now we know that whatever the Law [of Moses] says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that [the excuses of] every mouth may be silenced [from protesting] and that all the world may be held accountable to God [and subject to His judgment].
Romans 3:20 - For no person will be justified [freed of guilt and declared righteous] in His sight by [trying to do] the works of the Law. For through the Law we become conscious of sin [and the recognition of sin directs us toward repentance, but provides no remedy for sin].
Romans 10:5 - For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law [with all its intricate demands] shall live by it.
Galatians 3:10 - For all who depend on the Law [seeking justification and salvation by obedience to the Law and the observance of rituals] are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed (condemned to destruction) is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, so as to practice them.”

逐节对照

交叉引用

Amplified Bible - I was once alive without [knowledge of] the Law; but when the commandment came [and I understood its meaning], sin became alive and I died [since the Law sentenced me to death].
新标点和合本 - 我以前没有律法是活着的；但是诫命来到，罪又活了，我就死了。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 以前没有律法的时候，我是活的；但是诫命来到，罪活起来，
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 以前没有律法的时候，我是活的；但是诫命来到，罪活起来，
当代译本 - 从前没有律法的时候，我是活的，但诫命来了之后，罪就活了，而我却死了。
圣经新译本 - 在没有律法的时候，我是活的；但诫命一来，罪就活了，我就死了。
中文标准译本 - 我从前活在律法之外，但是诫命一来，罪就活起来了，
现代标点和合本 - 我以前没有律法是活着的，但是诫命来到，罪又活了，我就死了。
和合本（拼音版） - 我以前没有律法，是活着的；但是诫命来到，罪又活了，我就死了。
New International Version - Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
New International Reader's Version - Before I knew about the law, I was alive. But then the commandment came. Sin came to life, and I died.
English Standard Version - I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.
New Living Translation - At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life,
Christian Standard Bible - Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life again
New American Standard Bible - I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life, and I died;
New King James Version - I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
American Standard Version - And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
King James Version - For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
New English Translation - And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive
World English Bible - I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
新標點和合本 - 我以前沒有律法是活着的；但是誡命來到，罪又活了，我就死了。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 以前沒有律法的時候，我是活的；但是誡命來到，罪活起來，
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 以前沒有律法的時候，我是活的；但是誡命來到，罪活起來，
當代譯本 - 從前沒有律法的時候，我是活的，但誡命來了之後，罪就活了，而我卻死了。
聖經新譯本 - 在沒有律法的時候，我是活的；但誡命一來，罪就活了，我就死了。
呂振中譯本 - 從前在律法以外、我活着；誡命一來到，罪活了起來，我就死了。
中文標準譯本 - 我從前活在律法之外，但是誡命一來，罪就活起來了，
現代標點和合本 - 我以前沒有律法是活著的，但是誡命來到，罪又活了，我就死了。
文理和合譯本 - 昔我無律而生、誡至、罪復生而我死、
文理委辦譯本 - 故昔未有法而我生、誡至、惡生而我死、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 昔我無律法而生、誡至、罪生而我死、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 我生之初尚無法、誡命一至、罪於是乎生、而我於是乎死矣。
Nueva Versión Internacional - En otro tiempo yo tenía vida aparte de la ley; pero, cuando vino el mandamiento, cobró vida el pecado y yo morí.
현대인의 성경 - 내가 한때는 율법 없이 살았습니다. 그러나 계명을 알게 되자 죄는 살아나고 나는 죽었습니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Я когда-то жил, не зная Закона, но когда я узнал повеление, то грех во мне ожил,
Восточный перевод - Я когда-то жил, не зная Закона, но когда я узнал повеление Всевышнего, грех во мне ожил,
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Я когда-то жил, не зная Закона, но когда я узнал повеление Аллаха, грех во мне ожил,
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Я когда-то жил, не зная Закона, но когда я узнал повеление Всевышнего, грех во мне ожил,
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Pour ma part, autrefois sans la Loi, je vivais, mais quand le commandement est intervenu, le péché a pris vie,
リビングバイブル - 私は、律法が何を要求しているかを知らなかった時には罪の自覚がありませんでした。しかし真実がわかった時、自分が律法を破っており、死を宣告された罪人であることがはっきりわかりました。
Nestle Aland 28 - ἐγὼ δὲ ἔζων χωρὶς νόμου ποτέ, ἐλθούσης δὲ τῆς ἐντολῆς ἡ ἁμαρτία ἀνέζησεν,
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἐγὼ δὲ ἔζων χωρὶς νόμου ποτέ; ἐλθούσης δὲ τῆς ἐντολῆς, ἡ ἁμαρτία ἀνέζησεν,
Nova Versão Internacional - Antes eu vivia sem a Lei, mas, quando o mandamento veio, o pecado reviveu, e eu morri.
Hoffnung für alle - Früher habe ich ohne das Gesetz gelebt. Erst seit das Gesetz mit seinen Geboten in die Welt kam, wurde auch die Sünde in mir lebendig,
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Khi chưa có luật pháp, tôi sống, nhưng khi có luật pháp rồi, quyền lực tội lỗi sống,
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ครั้งหนึ่งข้าพเจ้าดำเนินชีวิตโดยไม่มีบทบัญญัติ แต่พอมีพระบัญญัติ บาปก็มีชีวิตขึ้นมาและข้าพเจ้าก็ตาย
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เมื่อก่อน ข้าพเจ้าเคยดำรงชีวิตอยู่ขณะที่ไม่มีกฎบัญญัติ แต่เมื่อมีพระบัญญัติขึ้น บาปก็กลับมีชีวิตขึ้น และข้าพเจ้าก็ตาย

Matthew 15:4 - For God said [through Moses], ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of or insults or treats improperly father or mother is to be put to death.’
Matthew 15:5 - But you say, ‘If anyone says to his father or mother, “Whatever [money or resource that] I have that would help you is [already dedicated and] given to God,”
Matthew 15:6 - he is not to honor his father or his mother [by helping them with their need].’ So by this you have invalidated the word of God [depriving it of force and authority and making it of no effect] for the sake of your tradition [handed down by the elders].
Luke 10:25 - And a certain lawyer [an expert in Mosaic Law] stood up to test Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 10:26 - Jesus said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”
Luke 10:27 - And he replied, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:28 - Jesus said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this habitually and you will live.”
Luke 10:29 - But he, wishing to justify and vindicate himself, asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
Luke 18:21 - He replied, “I have kept all these things from my youth.”
Mark 7:8 - You disregard and neglect the commandment of God, and cling [faithfully] to the tradition of men.”
Mark 7:9 - He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside and nullifying the commandment of God in order to keep your [man-made] tradition and regulations.
Mark 7:10 - For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother [with respect and gratitude]’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of his father or mother must be put to death’;
Mark 7:11 - but you [Pharisees and scribes] say, ‘If a man tells his father or mother, “Whatever I have that would help you is Corban, (that is to say, already a gift to God),” ’
Mark 7:12 - then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother [since helping them would violate his vow of Corban];
Mark 7:13 - so you nullify the [authority of the] word of God [acting as if it did not apply] because of your tradition which you have handed down [through the elders]. And you do many things such as that.”
Psalms 40:12 - For innumerable evils have encompassed me; My sins have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see. They are more numerous than the hairs of my head, And my heart has failed me.
Matthew 19:20 - The young man said to Him, “I have kept all these things [from my youth]; what do I still lack?”
Matthew 5:21 - “You have heard that it was said to the men of old, ‘You shall not murder,’ and ‘Whoever murders shall be guilty before the court.’
Matthew 5:22 - But I say to you that everyone who continues to be angry with his brother or harbors malice against him shall be guilty before the court; and whoever speaks [contemptuously and insultingly] to his brother, ‘Raca (You empty-headed idiot)!’ shall be guilty before the supreme court (Sanhedrin); and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fiery hell.
Matthew 5:23 - So if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and while there you remember that your brother has something [such as a grievance or legitimate complaint] against you,
Matthew 5:24 - leave your offering there at the altar and go. First make peace with your brother, and then come and present your offering.
Matthew 5:25 - Come to terms quickly [at the earliest opportunity] with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way [to court], so that your opponent does not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you are thrown into prison.
Matthew 5:26 - I assure you and most solemnly say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid the last cent.
Luke 15:29 - But he said to his father, ‘Look! These many years I have served you, and I have never neglected or disobeyed your command. Yet you have never given me [so much as] a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;
Philippians 3:5 - circumcised when I was eight days old, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews [an exemplary Hebrew]; as to the [observance of the] Law, a Pharisee;
Philippians 3:6 - as to my zeal [for Jewish tradition], a persecutor of the church; and as to righteousness [supposed right living] which [my fellow Jews believe] is in the Law, I proved myself blameless.
Galatians 2:19 - For through the Law I died to the Law and its demands on me [because salvation is provided through the death and resurrection of Christ], so that I might [from now on] live to God.
Romans 8:7 - the mind of the flesh [with its sinful pursuits] is actively hostile to God. It does not submit itself to God’s law, since it cannot,
James 2:10 - For whoever keeps the whole Law but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of [breaking] all of it.
James 2:11 - For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you have become guilty of transgressing the [entire] Law.
Romans 7:21 - So I find it to be the law [of my inner self], that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
Romans 7:22 - For I joyfully delight in the law of God in my inner self [with my new nature],
Romans 7:23 - but I see a different law and rule of action in the members of my body [in its appetites and desires], waging war against the law of my mind and subduing me and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is within my members.
Romans 7:4 - Therefore, my fellow believers, you too died to the Law through the [crucified] body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
Romans 7:11 - For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, beguiled and completely deceived me, and using it as a weapon killed me [separating me from God].
Luke 18:9 - He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves and were confident that they were righteous [posing outwardly as upright and in right standing with God], and who viewed others with contempt:
Luke 18:10 - “Two men went up into the temple [enclosure] to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
Luke 18:11 - The Pharisee stood [ostentatiously] and began praying to himself [in a self-righteous way, saying]: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the rest of men—swindlers, unjust (dishonest), adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
Luke 18:12 - I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’
Romans 7:6 - But now we have been released from the Law and its penalty, having died [through Christ] to that by which we were held captive, so that we serve [God] in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter [of the Law].
Romans 3:19 - Now we know that whatever the Law [of Moses] says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that [the excuses of] every mouth may be silenced [from protesting] and that all the world may be held accountable to God [and subject to His judgment].
Romans 3:20 - For no person will be justified [freed of guilt and declared righteous] in His sight by [trying to do] the works of the Law. For through the Law we become conscious of sin [and the recognition of sin directs us toward repentance, but provides no remedy for sin].
Romans 10:5 - For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law [with all its intricate demands] shall live by it.
Galatians 3:10 - For all who depend on the Law [seeking justification and salvation by obedience to the Law and the observance of rituals] are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed (condemned to destruction) is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, so as to practice them.”