Romans 7:1–6

Freed from the Law

7Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law ¹has dominion over a man as long as he lives? ²For ^athe woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. ³So then ^bif, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. ⁴Therefore, my brethren, you also have become ^cdead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should ^dbear fruit to God. ⁵For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law ^ewere at work in our members ^fto bear fruit to death. ⁶But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve ^gin the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.