Romans 7:1
Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
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- Rom 6:3 : 3 Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
- Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
- Rom 7:6 : 6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
- Rom 9:3 : 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
- Rom 10:1 : 1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
- Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
- 1 Cor 9:8 : 8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?
- Gal 4:21 : 21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?
- Rom 1:13 : 13 Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
- Rom 2:17-18 : 17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God, 18 and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
- Ezra 7:25 : 25 You, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God who is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn't know them.
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- Rom 7:2-109 verses86%
2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
4 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.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
- 1 Cor 7:39-402 verses80%
39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.
40 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.
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14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
- Rom 6:14-163 verses71%
14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
16 Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
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21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?
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19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
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4 The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.
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27 Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.
- 1 Tim 1:8-92 verses69%
8 But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,
9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
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29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
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2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
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16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
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8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?
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12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."
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7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
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1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;
- 1 Cor 6:15-162 verses68%
15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
16 Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."
- 1 Cor 7:10-123 verses68%
10 But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband
11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
12 But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
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23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
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20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
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17 For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
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25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.
- Rom 14:7-82 verses67%
7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.
- 1 Cor 7:1-22 verses67%
1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
- 1 Cor 7:23-242 verses67%
23 You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.
24 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.
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5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."
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12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
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14 (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
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12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
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12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
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8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
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12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.