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you were free from righteousness

Here "free from righteousness" is a metaphor for not having to do what is righteous. The people were living as though they thought that they did not have to do what was right. AT: "it was as though you were free from righteousness" or "you behaved as though you did not have to do what was right" or (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-irony)