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Romans 7

KJ3 Literal Translation — Chapter 7 of 16

1 ¶ Or are you ignorant, brothers, (for I speak to those knowing the law), that the law rules over the man for as long a time as he lives?

2 For the married woman was bound by law to the living husband; but if the husband dies, she is set free from the law of the husband.

3 So therefore, if the husband is living, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes another man’s. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so as for her not to be an adulteress by becoming another man’s.

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Chapter Summary

1 the law rules over a man as long as he lives. 7 Is the law sin? 12 No, but holy, just, good.

Key Greek Words

νόμος law G3551
ἁμαρτία sin G266
ἐντολή commandment G1785
σάρξ flesh G4561
ἐπιθυμία lust, covetous desire G1939
θάνατος death G2288

People & Context

Jesus Christ

The Lord through whose body believers are made dead to the law; thanked as the deliverer from this body of death

Timeline

Released from the Law

Using the analogy of marriage, Paul explains believers are dead to the law through the body of Christ. He acknowledges the internal war between the law of the mind and the law of sin .

Romans 7:1-25

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