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

¹ Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to Jews acquainted with the law) that the law hath authority over a man, till it be abrogated? ² now a married woman is bound by the law to her living husband: but if her husband dieth, she is released from the marriage-contract. ³ wherefore she will be reputed an adulteress if she become another man's during her husband's life: but if her husband dies, she is clear from that law, from the imputation of being an adulteress, though she become another man's.

⁴ thus, my brethren, the law is become dead with respect to you by the body of Christ; that you might be subject to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. ⁵ for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death. ⁶ but now we are delivered by the death of the law, which held us in bondage: that we might serve according to the living spirit, and not in the dead letter of the law.