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Romans 7:1-6
Released to Bear Fruit
Law, Conflict, and the Cry for Rescue · Romans 7
Story guide: Disclosed visual essay. Paul’s marriage analogy establishes that death ends a former legal bond. Through Messiah’s body believers die to the law, belong to the risen one, bear fruit for God, and serve in newness of Spirit.
Open this scene in the reader →1Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over a person for as long as he lives?
2For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives; but if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.
3So then, while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress if she belongs to another man. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if she belongs to another man.
4So then, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of the Messiah, so that you might belong to another—to him who was raised from the dead—in order that we might bear fruit for God.
5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions that came through the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
6But now we have been released from the law, having died to what held us, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
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