Romans 7:1

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

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  • Rom 6:3 : 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
  • Rom 7:6 : 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
  • Rom 9:3 : 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
  • Rom 10:1 : 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
  • 1 Cor 9:8 : 8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
  • Gal 4:21 : 21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
  • Rom 1:13 : 13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
  • Rom 2:17-18 : 17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, 18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
  • Ezra 7:25 : 25 And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.

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  • Rom 7:2-10
    9 verses
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    2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

    3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

    4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married 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 flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

    6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

    7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

    8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

    9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

    10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

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    39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

    40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

  • 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

  • Rom 6:14-16
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    14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

    15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

    16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

  • 21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

  • 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

  • 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

  • 27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

  • 1 Tim 1:8-9
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    8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

    9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

  • 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

  • 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • 16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

  • 8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

  • 12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

  • 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

  • 1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

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    15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

    16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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    10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

    11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

    12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

  • 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

  • 20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

  • 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

  • 25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:

  • Rom 14:7-8
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    7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

    8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-2
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    1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

    2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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    23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

    24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.

  • 5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

  • 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

  • 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

  • 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

  • 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

  • 8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

  • 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.