Romans 7:4

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, in order that ye should be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

In Context

3So then if, while the husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she be married to another man.

5For when we were in the flesh, the emotions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:26And as they were eating, Jesus took the loaf[26:26], and blessed, and broke, and gave to the disciples, and said: Take, eat; this is my body.

John 6:51I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. If any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever; yea, and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

Romans 6:2Far be it! How shall we who died to sin, live any longer therein?

Romans 6:22But now, being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end everlasting life.

Matthew Henry on Romans 7:2-7

Observations Respecting the Law. ( a. d. 58.) 1 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? 2 For the woman which 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 her husband. 3 So then if, 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… Read the whole commentary →

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