Romans 7:2-4
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
2 For the married woman has been bound by the Law to the living husband; but if the husband dies, she has been released from the law of [a] the husband. 3 So then, while the husband is living, she will be called an adulteress if she comes[b] to a different husband. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, having come to a different husband.
We Have Died To The Law In Christ
4 So-then[c], my brothers, you also were put-to-death with reference to the Law[d] through the body of Christ so that you might come[e] to a different One— to the One having arisen from the dead— in order that we might bear-fruit for God.
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- Romans 7:2 That is, concerning.
- Romans 7:3 Or, comes-to-be with.
- Romans 7:4 Now Paul applies to us the principle of v 1, illustrated by v 2-3, that death ends the authority of the Law.
- Romans 7:4 That is, God’s Law as the terms and conditions of which we must be doers (2:13) to have a relationship with Him. Christ did not need to die to release us from our legalism or man’s civil law or law in general, but from God’s objective standards.
- Romans 7:4 Same word as twice in the illustrations in v 3. It is not the normal word for ‘marry’, but that is the idea in v 3-4.
Romans 7:2-4
New International Version
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.(A) 3 So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress.(B) 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(C) through the body of Christ,(D) that you might belong to another,(E) to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
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