Romans 7:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

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  • Rom 6:3 : 3 Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
  • Rom 7:6 : 6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.
  • Rom 9:3 : 3 For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:
  • Rom 10:1 : 1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation.
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
  • 1 Cor 9:8 : 8 Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?
  • Gal 4:21 : 21 Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?
  • Rom 1:13 : 13 You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.
  • Rom 2:17-18 : 17 But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God, 18 And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,
  • Ezra 7:25 : 25 And you, Ezra, by the wisdom of your God which is in you, are to put rulers and judges to have authority over all the people across the river who have knowledge of the laws of your God; and you are to give teaching to him who has no knowledge of them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 7:2-10
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    2For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

    3So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.

    4In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

    5For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

    6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

    7What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

    8But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

    9And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

    10And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:

  • 1 Cor 7:39-40
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    39It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living; but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another; but only to a Christian.

    40But it will be better for her to keep as she is, in my opinion: and it seems to me that I have the Spirit of God.

  • Rom 7:14
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    14For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

  • Rom 6:14-16
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    14For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

    15What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

    16Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

  • Gal 4:21
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    21Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?

  • Gal 2:19
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    19For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

  • 1 Cor 7:4
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    4The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.

  • 1 Tim 1:8-9
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    8We are conscious that the law is good, if a man makes a right use of it,

    9With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;

  • Rom 8:2
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?

  • 1 Cor 9:8
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    8Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?

  • Gal 3:12
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    12And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.

  • Rom 6:7
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    7Because he who is dead is free from sin.

  • Gal 4:1
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    1But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    15Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

    16Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-12
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    10But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband

    11(Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife.

    12But to the rest I say, and not the Lord; If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her.

  • Rom 7:23
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    23But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

  • Col 2:20
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    20If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

  • Heb 9:17
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    17For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living?

  • Matt 22:25
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    25Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;

  • Rom 14:7-8
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    7For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.

    8As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-2
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    1Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.

    2But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:23-24
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    23It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.

    24My brothers, let every man keep in that condition which is the purpose of God for him.

  • Rom 10:5
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    5For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.

  • Rom 8:12
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    12So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

  • Rom 2:14
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    14For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

  • Rom 2:12
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    12All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;

  • Jas 2:12
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    12Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.

  • 1 Cor 7:8
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    8But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them to be even as I am.

  • Rom 6:12
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    12For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;