They do not seek to be right with God by obeying some form of law, as the adherents of almost all religions have done.” (Morris)ī. It is not for them an option as a way of salvation. Some might think, “Yes, we were saved by grace, but we must live by law to please God.” Here Paul makes it plain that believers are dead to the law as far as it represents a principle of living or a place of right standing before God. Now he explains that we also died to the law. You also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ: In Romans 6:3-8, Paul carefully explained that we died with Jesus and we also rose with Him, although Paul there only spoke of our death to sin. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.Ī. (4) Our death with Jesus sets us free from the law. If her husband dies, she is free from that law. A wife is no longer bound to her husband if he dies because death ends that contract. The law has dominion over a man as long as he lives: Paul makes the point that death ends all obligations and contracts. The law that has dominion over man includes the Law of Moses, but there is a broader principle of law communicated by creation and by conscience, and these also have dominion over a man.Ĭ. This means Paul speaks of a principle broader than the Mosaic Law. That the law has dominion over a man: The ancient Greek wording here has no word “ the” before law.

After the discussion in Romans 6:15-23 regarding practical implications of this, he now explains more completely how it is that we are no longer under the dominion of the law.ī. The law has dominion: In Romans 6:14, Paul told us that you are not under law but under grace.

So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.Ī. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. (1-3) The law has authority only over the living.

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