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

¹ Surely you know, my brothers ??for I am speaking to men who know what law means ??that the law has hold over a person only during his lifetime! ² Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is alive; but if the husband dies, she is done with the law of 'the husband.' ³ Accordingly, she will be termed an adulteress if she becomes another man's while her husband is alive; but if her husband dies, she is freed from the law of 'the husband,' so that she is no adulteress if she becomes another man's.

⁴ It is the same in your case, my brothers. The crucified body of Christ made you dead to the Law, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we might be fruitful to God. ⁵ For when we were unspiritual, the sinful cravings excited by the Law were active in our members and made us fruitful to Death; ⁶ but now we are done with the Law, we have died to what once held us, so that we can serve in a new way, not under the written code as of old but in the Spirit.