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Romans 7:1
Romans 7:1 is verse 1 of Romans chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?
King James Version
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
World English Bible
Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
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Romans 7:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?
2 For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Romans 6:3Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Romans 9:3For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
Romans 10:1Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.
Romans 2:17Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
Romans 2:18if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;
Ezra 7:25And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which you possess, are to appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people west of the Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach these laws to anyone who does not know them.
Proverbs 6:23For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
1 Corinthians 9:8Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
Galatians 4:21Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?
Romans 7:6But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
Romans 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.