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

¹ Surely, Brothers, you know (for I am speaking to men who know what Law means) that Law has power over a man only as long as he lives. ² For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband while he is living; but, if her husband dies, she is set free from the law that bound her to him. ³ If, then, during her husband's lifetime, she unites herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but, if her husband dies, the law has no further hold on her, nor, if she unites herself to another man, is she an adulteress.

⁴ And so with you, my Brothers; as far as the Law was concerned, you underwent death in the crucified body of the Christ, so that you might be united to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that our lives might bear fruit for God. ⁵ When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death. ⁶ But now we are set free from the Law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations.