Romans 7:4

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.

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  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
  • 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 6:22 : 22 But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
  • Eph 2:15 : 15 when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace,
  • Col 1:22 : 22 but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him–
  • Col 2:14 : 14 He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the 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, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If 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 10:10 : 10 By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.
  • Rev 19:7 : 7 Let us rejoice and exult and give him glory, because the wedding celebration of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.
  • Rev 21:9 : 9 The New Jerusalem Descends Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and spoke to me, saying,“Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb!”
  • Eph 5:23-27 : 23 because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church(he himself being the savior of the body). 24 But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her 26 to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word, 27 so that he may present the church to himself as glorious– not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
  • Phil 4:17 : 17 I do not say this because I am seeking a gift. Rather, I seek the credit that abounds to your account.
  • Col 1:6 : 6 that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
  • 1 Cor 10:16 : 16 Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ?
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
  • Gal 2:19-20 : 19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us(because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)
  • Ps 45:10-16 : 10 Listen, O princess! Observe and pay attention! Forget your homeland and your family! 11 Then the king will be attracted by your beauty. After all, he is your master! Submit to him! 12 Rich people from Tyre will seek your favor by bringing a gift. 13 The princess looks absolutely magnificent, decked out in pearls and clothed in a brocade trimmed with gold. 14 In embroidered robes she is escorted to the king. Her attendants, the maidens of honor who follow her, are led before you. 15 They are bubbling with joy as they walk in procession and enter the royal palace. 16 Your sons will carry on the dynasty of your ancestors; you will make them princes throughout the land.
  • Hos 2:19-20 : 19 I will commit myself to you forever; I will commit myself to you in righteousness and justice, in steadfast love and tender compassion. 20 I will commit myself to you in faithfulness; then you will acknowledge the LORD.”
  • Matt 26:26 : 26 The Lord’s Supper While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to his disciples, and said,“Take, eat, this is my body.”
  • John 3:29 : 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete.
  • John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
  • John 15:8 : 8 My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
  • Isa 54:5 : 5 For your husband is the one who made you– the LORD of Heaven’s Armies is his name. He is your protector, the Holy One of Israel. He is called“God of the entire earth.”
  • Isa 62:5 : 5 As a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over a bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

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  • Rom 7:1-3
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    1 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?

    2 For 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.

    3 So 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.

  • Rom 7:5-9
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    5 For 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.

    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.

    7 What 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.”

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

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

  • 39 A 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).

  • Gal 2:19-21
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    19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

    20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

    21 I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

  • Rom 6:2-8
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    2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

    3 Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

    4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

    5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

    6 We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

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

    8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

  • Rom 6:10-11
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    10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

    11 So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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

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    15 Do 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!

    16 Or 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.”

    17 But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.

  • 20 If 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?

  • 4 You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

  • Rom 8:10-13
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    10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.

    11 Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

    12 So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, 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
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    21 So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

    22 But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

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

  • 4 It 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 Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

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

  • 3 for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

  • 4 so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

  • 7 So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.

  • 30 because we are members of his body.

  • 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

  • Rom 6:13-14
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    13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

    14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

  • 25 Now 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.

  • 17 But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

  • 15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

  • 18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

  • 24 Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.

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