Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

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].