Romans 7:2 - Forerunner Commentary

Romans 7:2

Freed from the Law

1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law¹ has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

2 For ^athe 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 ^aif, 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 ^adead 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 ^bbear fruit to God.

5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law ^awere at work in our members ^bto 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 ^ain the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

Verse Comparison: Romans 7:2

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American Standard Version
For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Amplified® Bible
For [instance] a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is loosed {and} discharged from the law concerning her husband.

Contemporary English Version
For example, the Law says that a man's wife must remain his wife as long as he lives. But once her husband is dead, she is free

Darby English Version
For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:

Good News Bible
A married woman, for example, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if he dies, then she is free from the law that bound her to him.

International Standard Version
For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning her husband.

King James Version
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

New American Standard Bible
For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.

New International Version
For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

New King James Version
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.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
For the married woman has bound herself by law to her husband while he lives; but if her husband dies, she will become released from the law concerning the husband.

Young's Literal Translation
for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

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