Romans 7:6

“But now we are delivered from the law, etc..] From the ministration of it, by Moses; from it, as a covenant of works; from its rigorous exaction; from its curse and condemnation, all this by Christ; and from its being an irritating, provoking law to sin, through the corruption of nature, by the Spirit and grace of Christ; but not from obedience to it, as in the hands of Christ. The Vulgate Latin version, and some copies read, “from the law of death”; and the Ethiopic version renders it, “we are loosed from the law, and are delivered from the former doctrine”; the doctrine of the legal dispensation. That being dead; not sin, but the law: in what sense believers are dead to the law, and that…”

“But now--On the same expression, see on Rom 6:22, and compare Jam 1:15. we are delivered from the law--The word is the same which, in Rom 6:6 and elsewhere, is rendered "destroyed," and is but another way of saying (as in Rom 7:4) that "we were slain to the law by the body of Christ"; language which, though harsh to the ear, is designed and fitted to impress upon the reader the violence of that death of the Cross, by which, as by a deadly wrench, we are "delivered from the law." that being dead wherein we were held--It is now universally agreed that the true reading here is, "being dead to that wherein we were held." The received reading has no authority whatever, and is inconsistent with…”

“But now - Under the gospel. This verse states the consequences of the gospel, in distinction from the effects of the Law. The way in which this is accomplished, the apostle illustrates more at length in Romans 8:0 with which this verse is properly connected. The remainder of Romans 7:0 is occupied in illustrating the statement in Romans 7:5, of the effects of the Law; and after having shown that its effects always were to increase crime and distress, he is prepared in Romans 8:0 to take up the proposition in this verse, and to show the superiority of the gospel in producing peace. We are delivered - We who are Christians. Delivered from it as a means of justification, as a source of…”

“Being dead to that whereby we were held - To our old husband, the law. That we might serve in newness of spirit - In a new, spiritual manner. And not in the oldness of the letter - Not in a bare literal, external way, as we did before. Romans 7:7”

“7:6 the letter of the law (literally the letter): Paul uses the word letter to refer to the law, which was engraved on tablets of stone and consisted of individual letters (see 2:29; 2 Cor 3:5-7).”

“But: Rom 7:4, Rom 6:14, Rom 6:15; Gal 3:13, Gal 3:23-25, Gal 4:4, Gal 4:5 that being dead: or, being dead to that, Rom 7:1, Rom 7:4, Rom 6:2 serve: Rom 1:9, Rom 2:27-29, Rom 6:4, Rom 6:11, Rom 6:19, Rom 6:22, Rom 12:2; Eze 11:19, Eze 36:26; Co2 3:6, Co2 5:17; Gal 2:19, Gal 2:20, Gal 6:15; Phi 3:3; Col 3:10 Romans 7:7”