Romans 7:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that you may be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—in order that we might bear fruit for God.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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 fm the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Wherefore,{G5620} my{G3450} brethren,{G80} ye{G5210} also{G2532} were made dead{G2289} to the law{G3551} through{G1223} the body{G4983} of Christ;{G5547} that{G1519} ye{G5209} should be joined{G1096} to another,{G2087} [even] to him who was raised{G1453} from{G1537} the dead,{G3498} that{G2443} we might bring forth fruit{G2592} unto God.{G2316}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Wherefore{G5620}, my{G3450} brethren{G80}, ye{G5210} also{G2532} are become dead{G2289}{(G5681)} to the law{G3551} by{G1223} the body{G4983} of Christ{G5547}; that{G1519} ye{G5209} should be married{G1096}{(G5635)} to another{G2087}, even to him who is raised{G1453}{(G5685)} from{G1537} the dead{G3498}, that{G2443} we should bring forth fruit{G2592}{(G5661)} unto God{G2316}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Even so ye my brethren are deed concerninge the lawe by the body of Christ yt ye shuld be coupled to another (I meane to him that is rysen agayne fro deeth) that we shuld bringe forth frute vnto God.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Euen so my brethren, ye also are deed vnto the lawe by the body of Christ, that ye shulde be with another (namely wt him which is raysed vp from the deed) that we shulde brynge forth frute vnto God.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    So yee, my brethren, are dead also to the Law by ye body of Christ, that ye should be vnto an other, euen vnto him that is raised vp from the dead, that we should bring foorth fruite vnto God.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Euen so, ye also my brethren, are dead concernyng the lawe by the body of Christe, that ye shoulde be coupled to another, who is raysed from the dead, that we shoulde bryng foorth fruite vnto God.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, `even' to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, [even] to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    In 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
  • 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 6:22 : 22 But now, having been freed from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.
  • Eph 2:15 : 15 Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances, to create in Himself of the two one new man, so making peace;
  • Col 1:22 : 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable in his sight:
  • Col 2:14 : 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
  • Gal 5:18 : 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.
  • Col 2:20 : 20 Therefore if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations,
  • Heb 10:10 : 10 By that will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
  • Rev 19:7 : 7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.
  • Rev 21:9 : 9 And there came to me one of the seven angels who had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.
  • Eph 5:23-27 : 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is also the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. 24 Therefore just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • Phil 4:17 : 17 Not because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
  • Col 1:6 : 6 Which has come to you, as it is in all the world; and brings forth fruit, as it does also in you, since the day you heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
  • Col 1:10 : 10 That you might walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing him, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • 1 Cor 10:16 : 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy: for I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
  • Gal 2:19-20 : 19 For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.'
  • Ps 45:10-16 : 10 Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget your own people, and your father's house; 11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Lord; and you shall worship him. 12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall seek your favor. 13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of woven gold. 14 She shall be brought to the king in robes of needlework: the virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you. 15 With gladness and rejoicing they shall be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace. 16 Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth.
  • Hos 2:19-20 : 19 And I will betroth you to me forever; yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness: and you shall know the LORD.
  • Matt 26:26 : 26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
  • John 3:29 : 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this my joy is fulfilled.
  • John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
  • John 15:8 : 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you shall be my disciples.
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 Certainly not. How shall we who are dead to sin live any longer in it?
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace.
  • Isa 54:5 : 5 For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is His name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall He be called.
  • Isa 62:5 : 5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 7:1-3
    3 verses
    84%

    1 Do you not know, brothers, (for I speak to those who know the law,) that the law has dominion over a person as long as he lives?

    2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband is dead, she is released from the law of her husband.

    3 So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she will be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she is married to another man.

  • Rom 7:5-9
    5 verses
    82%

    5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit to 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? Certainly not. Indeed, I would not have known sin except through the law: for I would not have known lust unless the law had said, 'You shall not covet.'

    8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of covetousness. For without the law, sin was dead.

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

  • 1 Cor 7:39
    77%

    39 A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

  • Gal 2:19-21
    3 verses
    77%

    19 For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.

    20 I have been crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

    21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.

  • Rom 6:2-8
    7 verses
    77%

    2 Certainly not. How shall we who are dead to sin live any longer in it?

    3 Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?

    4 Therefore, we are buried with Him by baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

    5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection.

    6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

    7 For he who has died is freed from sin.

    8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him.

  • Rom 6:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

    11 Likewise, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Rom 8:2
    75%

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

  • 1 Cor 6:15-17
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    15 Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

    16 What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

    17 But he who is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

  • Col 2:20
    73%

    20 Therefore if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations,

  • Gal 5:4
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    4 Christ has become of no effect to you, whoever among you are justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.

  • Rom 8:10-13
    4 verses
    72%

    10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

    11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

    12 Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

    13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

  • Rom 6:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

    22 But now, having been freed from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

  • Rom 7:14
    72%

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

  • 1 Cor 7:4
    71%

    4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

  • Gal 5:1
    71%

    1 Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    71%

    27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

  • Col 3:3
    70%

    3 For you are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

  • Rom 8:4
    70%

    4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

  • Gal 4:7
    70%

    7 Therefore you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

  • Eph 5:30
    70%

    30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

  • Gal 4:5
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    5 To redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

  • Rom 6:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13 And do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

    14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace.

  • Matt 22:25
    69%

    25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

  • Gal 2:17
    69%

    17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? God forbid.

  • 2 Cor 5:15
    69%

    15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

  • Rom 6:18
    69%

    18 And having been set free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.

  • Gal 3:24
    69%

    24 Therefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

  • Gal 5:18
    69%

    18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.