Romans 7:1

ARE you unacquainted, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who know the law,) that the law exercises dominion over a person for as long time as he liveth?

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 the woman who is subject to a husband, is bound by the law to that husband during his life; but if the husband be dead, she is discharged from that husband.

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Cross References

Romans 2:17Lo! thou art named a Jew, and restest on the law, and boastest in God,

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

Romans 9:3For could I myself wish that an anathema should be from Christ upon my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh?

1 Corinthians 9:8Speak I these things rationally as a man, or doth not the law speak the same 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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