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. 007:004 So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God. 007:005 For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions--made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death. 007:006 But seeing that we have died to that which once held us in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us, so that we render a service which, instead of being old and formal, is new and spiritual. 007:007 What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, if the Law had not repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not covet." 007:008 Sin took advantage of this, and by means of the Commandment stirred up within me every kind of coveting; for apart from Law sin would be dead. 007:009 Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died; 007:010 and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death. 007:011 For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death. 007:012 So that the Law itself is holy, and the Commandment is holy, just and good.