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

¹ Know ye not brethren, (for I speak to them knowing law,) that law rules over man as much time as he lives? ² For a married woman is bound by the law to a living husband; and if the husband die, she is left inactive from the law of the husband. ³ Wherefore, the husband living, she shall be called adulteress if she be to another man: but if the man die, she is free from the law; not to be an adulteress, being to another man.

⁴ Therefore, my brethren, ye also were dead to the law by the body of Christ; for you not to be to another, but to him raised from the dead, that we bring forth fruit to God. ⁵ For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death. ⁶ And now we were left inactive from the law, having died in what we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.