Romans 7:1

Whether are you ignorant, O brethren, for I speak to those knowing the law, for the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he may live?

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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 woman who is under her husband has been given to her husband by the law so long as he lives; but if the husband may die, she is free from the law of the husband.

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Cross References

Romans 2:17But if you are denominated a Jew, and rest in the law, and boast in God,

Romans 6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

Romans 9:3For I would pray, that I myself might be an offering from Christ; in behalf of my brethren, my kindred according to the flesh:

1 Corinthians 9:8Whether do I speak these things according to a man? or does not the law indeed say these things?

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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