Romans 7:1
Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?
2 For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?
- KJV
- 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?
- WEB
- Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
- ASV
- Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth?
- DARBY
- Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?
- BLB
- Or are you⁺ ignorant, brothers (for I speak to those knowing the law), that the law rules over the man for as long as the time he lives?
- ÅB
- Eller vet dere ikke, brødre – jeg snakker jo til dere som kjenner loven – at loven hersker over mennesket så lenge det lever?
- OTB
- Vet dere ikke, brødre og søstre (for jeg taler til dem som kjenner loven), at loven har myndighet over et menneske bare så lenge det lever?
- B1930
- Eller vet I ikke, brødre - jeg taler jo til slike som kjenner loven - at loven hersker over mennesket så lenge det lever?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 6:14
For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
Read in contextRomans 7:6
But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
Read in contextRomans 6:3
Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Read in contextProverbs 6:23
For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
Read in contextRomans 10:1
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.
Read in contextGalatians 4:21
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?
Read in contextRomans 9:3
For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
Read in contextRomans 2:17–18
Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
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