The Daily Audio Bible

But We Are Indeed Not Under The Law, For It Only Has Jurisdiction Over The Living

7 Or^[a] do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to ones knowing the Law^[b]), that the Law lords-over^[c] the person for as much time as he lives? ² For the married woman has been bound by the Law to the living husband; but if the husband dies, she has been released from the law of ^[d] the husband. ³ So then, while the husband is living, she will be called an adulteress if she comes^[e] to a different husband. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, having come to a different husband.

We Have Died To The Law In Christ

⁴ So-then^[f], my brothers, you also were put-to-death with reference to the Law^[g] through the body of Christ so that you might come^[h] to a different One— to the One having arisen from the dead— in order that we might bear-fruit for God.

Having Died, We Are Released From The Law Through Which Sin Produced Death

⁵ For when we were in the flesh^[i], the passions of ^[j] sins which^[k] were through^[l] the Law were at-work in our body-parts so as to bear-fruit for death. ⁶ But now we were released^[m] from the Law, having died to that by which we were being held, so that we are serving in newness of the Spirit^[n] and not in oldness of the letter^[o].

Not That The Law Is At Fault For My Sin

⁷ Therefore, what shall we say? Is the Law sin^[p]? May it never be! On-the-contrary, I would not have known^[q] sin except through the Law.

Sin Used The Law To Produce Sin In Me

For indeed I would not have known^[r] coveting^[s] if the Law were not saying [in Ex 20:17], “You shall not covet”. ⁸ But sin, having taken^[t] an opportunity^[u] through the commandment, produced^[v] every^[w] [kind of ] coveting in me. For apart-from^[x] the Law, sin is dead^[y].

And Sin Used The Law To Kill Me

⁹ And I was once^[z] alive apart from the Law. But the commandment having come, sin became-alive^{[aa] 10} and I died. And the commandment for^[ab] life— this was found in me to be for^[ac] death. ¹¹ For sin, having taken an opportunity through the commandment, deceived^[ad] me, and through it, killed me.

So The Law Is Good

¹² So-then the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Not That The Law Killed Me. Sin Is To Blame For My Death

¹³ Therefore did the good thing become death^[ae] for me? May it never be! On the contrary, it was sin, in order that it might become-visible as sin while producing death in me through the good thing, in order that sin might become extremely^[af] sinful through the commandment.