Romans 7:1

Or do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to people who know about law), that the law controls a person for 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 the married woman is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

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Cross References

Proverbs 6:23For the commands are a lamp, and the teaching is a light; 1 the corrections that come by instruction are the way of life. 1

Romans 2:17But if you call yourself a Jew and rest upon the law and boast in God,

Romans 6:14Do not allow sin to rule over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 9:3For I could wish that I myself would be cursed and set apart from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race according to the flesh.

1 Corinthians 9:8Do I say these things based on human authority? Does not the law also say this?

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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