Romans 7:1

Released From the Law, Bound to Christ

1 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives?

Romans 7:1 in Other Translations

KJV
1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
ESV
1 Or do you not know, brothers--for I am speaking to those who know the law--that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?
NLT
1 Now, dear brothers and sisters —you who are familiar with the law—don’t you know that the law applies only while a person is living?
MSG
1 You shouldn't have any trouble understanding this, friends, for you know all the ins and outs of the law - how it works and how its power touches only the living.
CSB
1 Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives?

Romans 7:1 In-Context

1 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives?
2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.
3 So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
4 So, my brothers and sisters, you 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.
5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.

Cross References 1

  • 1. S Acts 1:16; S Acts 22:5; Romans 1:13; 1 Corinthians 1:10; 1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Corinthians 6:6; 1 Corinthians 14:20,26; Galatians 3:15; Galatians 6:18
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