Romans 7:1

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a person 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 a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning her husband.

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Cross References

Romans 2:17Behold, yoʋ call yoʋrself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God.

Romans 6:14For sin will have no dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 9:3For I could wish that I myself were accursed, cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

1 Corinthians 9:8Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law also say the same thing?

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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