⁴ Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death^(A) in relation to the law^(B) through the crucified body of the Messiah,^(C) so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—that we may bear fruit for God.

⁶ But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way^[a] of the Spirit^(A) and not in the old letter of the law.

¹⁹ For through the law I have died to the law,^(A) so that I might live for God.^(B) I have been crucified with Christ^[a]

²⁰ If you died with the Messiah^(A) to the elemental forces of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:

³ For you have died,^(A) and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.