YOU HAVE BECOME....

1 Or
do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law),
that
the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?
For
the woman
who has a husband
is bound
by the law to her husband
as long as he lives.
But
if the husband dies,
she is released
from the law of her husband.
3 So then
if, while her husband lives,
she marries another man,
she will be called an adulteress;
but if her husband dies,
she is free from that law,
so that she is no adulteress,
though she has married another man.

4 Therefore,
my brethren,
you also have become dead
to the law
through the body of Christ,

that you may be married to another
--to Him who was raised from the dead,
that we should bear fruit to God.
5 For when we were in the flesh,
the sinful passions
which were aroused
by the law
were at work in our members
to bear fruit to death.
6 But now we have been delivered from the law,
having died to what we were held by,
so that we should serve in the newness
of the Spirit
and not in the oldness
of the letter.




7 What shall we say then?
Is the law sin?

Certainly not! On the contrary,...