It definitely does. The Christian is not under the ten commandments unto righteousness:
So, my brothers and sisters, y
ou also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. [SUP]
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For when we were in the realm of the flesh,[SUP][a][/SUP] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. [SUP]
6 [/SUP]But now,
by dying to what once bound us(the law),
we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. Rom 7:4-6
Paul is stressing the Christian must die to a law of righteousness in the above. Which law is he referring to? In the next five verses he gives a personal example from his own life as to why he had to die to a law of righteousness. The example he gave was.
''Thou shalt not covet which is one of the Ten Commandments:
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said,
Thou shalt not covet.[SUP]
8 [/SUP]But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
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9 [/SUP]For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
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10 [/SUP]And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
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For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
