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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.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Romans 7:3

So then, if, while her husband liveth - The object of the apostle' s similitude is to show that each party is equally bound to the other; but that the death of either dissolves the engagement.

So - she is no adulteress, though she be married to another - And do not imagine that this change would argue any disloyalty in you to your Maker; for, as he has determined that this law of ordinances shall cease, you are no more bound to it than a woman is to a deceased husband, and are as free to receive the Gospel of Christ as a woman in such circumstances would be to remarry.


 
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