Romans 7:1–6

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? ²For ^athe woman ^bwhich hath a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of the husband. ³So then ^cif, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. ⁴Wherefore, my brethren, ye also ^dare become dead to the law ^eby the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that ^fwe should bring forth fruit unto God. ⁵For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work ^gin our members ^hto bring forth fruit ⁱunto death. ⁶But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve ^kin newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.