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Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sin which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. 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 if the term law here includes the _moral_ as well as the _ceremonial_ law, it is manifest that believers are not said to be delivered from it, considered in any other light than as _a covenant of works_. Certainly they are not delivered from it as _a rule of obedience_. To suppose this, is inconsistent with Christ's sermon on the mount, before alluded to, and many other decisive proofs of the perpetual obligation of the Decalogue. It is probable the Apostle had special reference to the deliverance of believers from the _curse_ of the moral law. This is reasonably inferred from the clause,