Released From the Law, Bound to Christ

Do you not know, brothers and sisters(A)—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person 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?

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14 For sin shall no longer be your master,(A) because you are not under the law,(B) but under grace.(C)

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

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But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law(A) so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.(B)

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But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

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Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized(A) into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

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Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

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10 Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire(A) and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved.

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10 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

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23 For this command is a lamp,
    this teaching is a light,(A)
and correction and instruction
    are the way to life,(B)

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23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

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Hagar and Sarah

21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law,(A) are you not aware of what the law says?

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21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

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For I could wish that I myself(A) were cursed(B) and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people,(C) those of my own race,(D)

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For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

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Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?

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Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

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The Jews and the Law

17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;(A) 18 if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;

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17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

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13 I do not want you to be unaware,(A) brothers and sisters,[a](B) that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now)(C) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 1:13 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 7:1, 4; 8:12, 29; 10:1; 11:25; 12:1; 15:14, 30; 16:14, 17.

13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

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25 And you, Ezra, in accordance with the wisdom of your God, which you possess, appoint(A) magistrates and judges to administer justice to all the people of Trans-Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach(B) any who do not know them.

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25 And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.

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