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But We Are Indeed Not Under The Law, For It Only Has Jurisdiction Over The Living

Or[a] do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to ones knowing the Law[b]), that the Law lords-over[c] the person for as much time as he lives?

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:1 Paul now takes up the other part of 6:14-15, the not being under the Law.
  2. Romans 7:1 That is, the Law of Moses, God’s Law. Or, law, the general principle of law and legal justice.
  3. Romans 7:1 Or rules over, is the master of.

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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