Romans 7:1-7 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Believers United to Christ

7 Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the ^[a]Law), that the ^[b]Law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? ² For the married woman is bound by law to her ^[c]husband as long as he is alive; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law ^[d]concerning the husband. ³ So then, if while her husband is alive she ^[e]gives herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if she ^[f]gives herself to another man.

⁴ Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death in regard to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. ⁵ For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were brought to light by the Law, were at work in ^[g]the parts of our body to bear fruit for death. ⁶ But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the ^[h]Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

⁷ What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? ^[i]Far from it! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except ^[j]through the Law; for I would not have known about ^[k]coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not ^[l]covet.”