Romans 7:1-2

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

An Analogy from Marriage

7 Do you not know, brothers and sisters^[a]—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only during that person’s lifetime? ² Thus a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.