Believers United to Christ

7 Or do you not know, ^(A)brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? ² For ^(B)the married woman is bound by law to her ^[a]husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law ^[b]concerning the husband. ³ So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.

⁴ Therefore, my brethren, you also were ^(C)made to die ^(D)to the Law ^(E)through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

²⁴ Therefore the Law has become our ^(A)tutor to lead us to Christ, so that ^(B)we may be justified by faith.

⁵ so that He might redeem those who were under ^[a]the Law, that we might receive the adoption as ^(A)sons.