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 newness of the Spirit^(A) and not in the old letter of the law.

²⁰ For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of the Lord^[a] and Saviour Jesus Christ,^(A) they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.^(B)