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Christ has delivered us from the law and death. Paul shows what the flesh and natural man is, and calls it the law of the members.

Do you not consider, brethren (I speak to people who know the law), that the law has dominion over a person as long as it endures? For the woman who is under a husband is bound by the law to the man as long as he lives. But if the husband is dead, she is released from the law of the husband. So then, if while the husband is alive she couples herself with another man, she will be counted a wedlock breaker. But if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is no wedlock breaker if she couples herself with another man.

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