Romans 7:1

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The Believer’s Relationship to the Law Or do you not know, brothers and sisters(for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?

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  • Rom 6:3 : 3 Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
  • Rom 7:6 : 6 But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.
  • Rom 9:3 : 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed– cut off from Christ– for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,
  • Rom 10:1 : 1 Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,
  • 1 Cor 9:8 : 8 Am I saying these things only on the basis of common sense, or does the law not say this as well?
  • Gal 4:21 : 21 An Appeal from Allegory Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?
  • Rom 1:13 : 13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you(and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.
  • Rom 2:17-18 : 17 The Condemnation of the Jew But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God 18 and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,
  • Ezra 7:25 : 25 “Now you, Ezra, in keeping with the wisdom of your God which you possess, appoint judges and court officials who can arbitrate cases on behalf of all the people who are in Trans-Euphrates who know the laws of your God. Those who do not know this law should be taught.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 7:2-10
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    2For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

    3So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.

    4So, 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.

    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

    6But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”

    8But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

    9And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

    10and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

  • 1 Cor 7:39-40
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    39A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes(only someone in the Lord).

    40But in my opinion, she will be happier if she remains as she is– and I think that I too have the Spirit of God!

  • Rom 7:14
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    14For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

  • Rom 6:14-16
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    14For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

    15The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

    16Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

  • Gal 4:21
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    21An Appeal from Allegory Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

  • Gal 2:19
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    19For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

  • 1 Cor 7:4
    70%

    4It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    70%

    27The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.

  • 1 Tim 1:8-9
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    8But we know that the law is good if someone uses it legitimately,

    9realizing that law is not intended for a righteous person, but for lawless and rebellious people, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,

  • 1 Cor 7:29
    69%

    29And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

  • Rom 8:2
    69%

    2For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
    69%

    16For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation?

  • 1 Cor 9:8
    68%

    8Am I saying these things only on the basis of common sense, or does the law not say this as well?

  • Gal 3:12
    68%

    12But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.

  • Rom 6:7
    68%

    7(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

  • Gal 4:1
    68%

    1Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

    16Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said,“The two will become one flesh.”

  • 1 Cor 7:10-12
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    10To the married I give this command– not I, but the Lord– a wife should not divorce a husband

    11(but if she does, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.

    12To the rest I say– I, not the Lord– if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her.

  • Rom 7:23
    67%

    23But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

  • Col 2:20
    67%

    20If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

  • Heb 9:17
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    17For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.

  • Matt 22:25
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    25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.

  • Rom 14:7-8
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    7For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

    8If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1Celibacy and Marriage Now with regard to the issues you wrote about:“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

    2But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:23-24
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    67%

    23You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men.

    24In whatever situation someone was called, brothers and sisters, let him remain in it with God.

  • Rom 10:5
    67%

    5For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law:“The one who does these things will live by them.”

  • Rom 8:12
    66%

    12So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

  • Rom 2:14
    66%

    14For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

  • Rom 2:12
    66%

    12For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

  • Jas 2:12
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    12Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

  • 1 Cor 7:8
    66%

    8To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am.

  • Rom 6:12
    66%

    12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,