Having made clear both our need for justification and the way of justification (through faith in Jesus), Paul is now addressing the implications of justification for our lives. In chapter 6 he has made it clear that justification does not mean that we should continue in sin (to increase grace) or that we should continue in sin (because we are not under law). But how then should we live if not by mere rule-keeping. Here in the beginning of chapter 7, Paul points us to the new way we are to live as those justified by the grace of God.