Romans 7:4

Therefore, my brothers, you were also made dead to the law through the body of Christ. This is so that you could be joined to another, that is, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might produce fruit for God.

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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, while her husband is living, if she lives with another man, she will be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so she is not an adulteress if she lives with another man.

5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

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Cross References

Psalms 45:10Listen, daughter, consider and incline your ear; 1 forget your own people and your father's house. 1

Isaiah 62:5Truly, as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you, 1 and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, your God will rejoice over you. 1

Matthew 26:26As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed it, and broke it. He gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat. This is my body.”

John 6:51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats some of this bread, he will live forever. The bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

Romans 6:2May it never be. We who died to sin, how can we still live in it?

Romans 6:22But now that you have been made free from sin and are enslaved to God, you have your fruit for sanctification. The result is eternal 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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