Romans 7:1-6 - Released From The Law Through Death

¹ Do you not know, brothers??or I am speaking to men who know what law is??hat law governs a man only as long as he lives? ² For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if he dies, the marriage law no longer applies to her. ³ So if she marries another man while her husband is alive, she is called an adulteress, but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and can marry someone else without being an adulteress.

⁴ So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God. ⁵ For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death. ⁶ But now the Law no longer applies to us; we have died to what once controlled us, so that we can now serve in the new Spirit, not under the old letter.