Romans 7:1-6
Released
From the Law, Bound to Christ
7 “Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those
who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that
person lives?
2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as
long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that
binds her to him.
3 So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her
husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband
dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries
another man.
4 So, my brothers and sisters, you
also died to the law through the body of CHRIST, that you might belong to
another, to HIM WHO was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear
fruit for GOD.
5 For when we were in the realm of
the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in
us, so that we bore fruit for death.
6 But now, by dying to what once
bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new
way of THE SPIRIT, and not in the old way of the written code."
