Romans 7:1

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know law), that the law has authority over someone only as long as he lives?

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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 example, a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if the man should die, she is released from the law about the husband.

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Cross References

Romans 2:17Look, you declare yourself a Jew, and rest on the Law, and boast in God,

Romans 6:14Really, sin must not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 9:3For I keep wishing that I myself could be accursed away from the Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my physical relatives,

1 Corinthians 9:8I am not saying these things as a mere man, am I? 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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