1

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth?

2

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

3

So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

4

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.

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For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

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But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.