Romans 7:1
Good News Translation
Certainly you will understand what I am about to say, my friends, because all of you know about law. The law rules over people only as long as they live.

New Revised Standard Version
Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only during that person’s lifetime?

Contemporary English Version
My friends, you surely understand enough about law to know that laws only have power over people who are alive.

New American Bible
Are you unaware, brothers (for I am speaking to people who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over one as long as one lives?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Know you not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath dominion over a man as long as it liveth?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Know you not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath dominion over a man as long as it liveth?

Know.

Romans 6:3 Know you not that all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are baptized in his death?

brethren.

Romans 9:3 For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren: who are my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Romans 10:1 Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is for them unto salvation.

them that.

Romans 2:17,18 But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God, . . .

Ezra 7:25 And thou Esdras according to the wisdom of thy God, which is in thy hand, appoint judges and magistrates, that may judge all the people, that is beyond the river, that is, for them who know the law of thy God, yea and the ignorant teach ye freely.

Proverbs 6:23 That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.

1 Corinthians 9:8 Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also say; these things?

Galatians 4:21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, have you not read the law?

the law.

Romans 7:6 But now we are loosed from the law of death wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

a man.

Context
Release from the Law
1Know you not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath dominion over a man as long as it liveth? 2For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.…
Cross References
Romans 1:13
And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come unto you (and have been hindered hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

Romans 10:4
For the end of the law is Christ: unto justice to everyone that believeth.

Romans 6:23
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