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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? For the married woman has been bound by the Law to the living husband; but if the husband dies, she has been released from the law of [d] the husband. So then, while the husband is living, she will be called an adulteress if she comes[e] to a different husband. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, having come to a different husband.

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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.
  4. Romans 7:2 That is, concerning.
  5. Romans 7:3 Or, comes-to-be with.

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