Rom 7:1-5 | ESV | STEP | Or do you not know , brothers — for I am speaking to those who know the law — that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives ?

Romans 7:1-5

Released from the Law

1 Or do you not know, brothers ^{▼▼Or brothers and sisters; also verse 4}—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? 2 For ^ba married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. ^{▼▼Greek law concerning the husband} 3 Accordingly, ^dshe will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

4 Likewise, my brothers, ^eyou also have died ^fto the law ^gthrough the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, ^hin order that we may bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work ⁱin our members ^jto bear fruit for death.