Book of Common Prayer

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

7 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? ² 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. ³ 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.

We Have Died To The Law In Christ

⁴ So-then^[f], my brothers, you also were put-to-death with reference to the Law^[g] through the body of Christ so that you might come^[h] to a different One— to the One having arisen from the dead— in order that we might bear-fruit for God.

Having Died, We Are Released From The Law Through Which Sin Produced Death

⁵ For when we were in the flesh^[i], the passions of ^[j] sins which^[k] were through^[l] the Law were at-work in our body-parts so as to bear-fruit for death. ⁶ But now we were released^[m] from the Law, having died to that by which we were being held, so that we are serving in newness of the Spirit^[n] and not in oldness of the letter^[o].

Not That The Law Is At Fault For My Sin

⁷ Therefore, what shall we say? Is the Law sin^[p]? May it never be! On-the-contrary, I would not have known^[q] sin except through the Law.

Sin Used The Law To Produce Sin In Me

For indeed I would not have known^[r] coveting^[s] if the Law were not saying [in Ex 20:17], “You shall not covet”. ⁸ But sin, having taken^[t] an opportunity^[u] through the commandment, produced^[v] every^[w] [kind of ] coveting in me. For apart-from^[x] the Law, sin is dead^[y].

And Sin Used The Law To Kill Me

⁹ And I was once^[z] alive apart from the Law. But the commandment having come, sin became-alive^{[aa] 10} and I died. And the commandment for^[ab] life— this was found in me to be for^[ac] death. ¹¹ For sin, having taken an opportunity through the commandment, deceived^[ad] me, and through it, killed me.

So The Law Is Good

¹² So-then the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Jesus Returns To Galilee And Feeds The 5000

6 After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee— of Tiberias^[a]. ² And a large crowd was following Him, because they were seeing the signs which He was doing on the ones being sick. ³ And Jesus went up on the mountain, and was sitting there with His disciples. ⁴ And the Passover, the Feast of the Jews, was near. ⁵ Then Jesus, having lifted-up His eyes and seen that a large crowd was coming to Him, says to Philip, “From where may we buy bread in order that these ones may eat?” ⁶ Now He was saying this testing him. For He Himself knew what He was going to do. ⁷ Philip answered Him, “Loaves worth two-hundred denarii^[b] are not enough for them, in order that each one may receive a little bit”. ⁸ One of His disciples— Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter— says to Him, ⁹ “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many?” ¹⁰ Jesus said, “Make the people fall-back [to eat]”. And there was much grass in the place. So the men— about five-thousand as to the number— fell back [to eat]. ¹¹ Then Jesus took the loaves. And having given-thanks, He distributed them to the ones reclining-back [to eat]— likewise also from the fish— as much as they were wanting. ¹² And when they were filled, He says to His disciples, “Gather the left-over fragments so that nothing may be lost”. ¹³ So they gathered, and filled twelve baskets of fragments from the five barley loaves, which were left over by the ones having eaten. ¹⁴ Therefore the people, having seen the sign which He did, were saying that “This One is truly the Prophet^[c] coming into the world”. ¹⁵ Then Jesus, having known that they were about to come and take Him away-by-force in order that they might make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain, Himself alone.