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Believers United to Christ
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|Romanos 7:1| Or do you not know,1 brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the Law), that the Law has jurisdiction[to rule] over a person as long as he lives?
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|Romanos 7:2| For the married woman[as an example] is bound and remains bound by law to her husband while he lives; but if her husband dies, she is released and exempt from the law concerning her husband.
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|Romanos 7:3| Accordingly, she will be designated as an adulteress if she2 unites herself to another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law[regarding marriage] , so that she is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
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|Romanos 7:4| Therefore, my3 fellow believers, you too died to the Law through the[crucified] body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
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|Romanos 7:5| When we were living in the flesh[trapped by sin] , the sinful passions, which were awakened by[that which] the Law[identifies as sin] , were at work in our body to bear fruit for death[since the willingness to sin led to death and separation from God] .
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|Romanos 7:6| But now we have been released from the Law and its penalty, having died[through Christ] to that by which we were held captive, so that we serve[God] in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter[of the Law] .
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|Romanos 7:7| What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, if it had not been for the Law, I would not have recognized sin. For I would not have known[for example] about coveting[what belongs to another, and would have had no sense of guilt] if the Law had not[repeatedly] said, "You shall not covet ."
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|Romanos 7:8| But sin, finding an opportunity through the commandment[to express itself] produced in me every kind of coveting and selfish desire. For without the Law sin is dead[the recognition of sin is inactive] .
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|Romanos 7:9| I was once alive without[knowledge of] the Law; but when the commandment came[and I understood its meaning] , sin became alive and I died[since the Law sentenced me to death] .
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|Romanos 7:10| And the very commandment which was intended to bring life, actually proved to bring death for me.
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