Romans 7:1

Know you not, brethren, for I speak to you that are acquainted with law, that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

2For the woman that has a husband, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives: but if her husband die, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

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Cross References

Romans 2:17But if you are named Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast in God.

Romans 6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 9:3for I could wish myself to be accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh;

1 Corinthians 9:8Do I speak these things as a man? Or does not the law, also, say the same?

Matthew Henry on Romans 7:1

We may observe in this chapter, I. Our freedom from the law further urged as an argument to press upon us sanctification, ver. 1-6 . II. The excellency and usefulness of the law asserted and proved from the apostle's own experience, notwithstanding, ver. 7-14 . III. A description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart, ver. 14, 15, to the end . Read the whole commentary →

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