Romans 7:1 KJV — MannaFest

Romans 7:1

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

KJV

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ASV

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?

WEB

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

YLT

Are ye ignorant, brethren--for to those knowing law I speak--that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

DBT

Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?

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Romans — Paul's gospel set out in order. Four great movements: sin, salvation, sanctification, sovereignty — closing with sustained calls to service and unity.

Author: Paul the apostle, dictated to Tertius (Rom 16:22)
Date: c. AD 57, from Corinth before the Jerusalem offering

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Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Mark 10:9
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Romans 7:6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Romans 6:3
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Romans 10:4
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

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Know ye not, etc. Let the general proposition be that the law was given to men for no other end but to regulate the present life, and that it belongs not to those who are dead: to this he afterwards subjoins this truth -- that we are dead to it through the body of Christ.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

The severest laws could but kill the body, and after that there is no more that they can do. Thus while we were alive to the law we were under the power of it--while we were in our Old-Testament state, before the gospel came into the world, and before it came with power into our hearts. Such is the law of marriage (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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