Romans 7:4

7:4 So, my brothers and sisters, ¹  you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God. ² 

Romans 7:6

7:6 But now we have been released from the law, because we have died ³  to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code. ⁴ 

Romans 7:11

7:11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died. ⁵ 

Romans 3:20

3:20 For no one is declared righteous before him ⁶  by the works of the law, ⁷  for through the law comes ⁸  the knowledge of sin.

Galatians 2:19

2:19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

² tn Grk “that we might bear fruit to God.”

³ tn Grk “having died.” The participle ἀποθανόντες (apoqanonte") has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.

⁴ tn Grk “in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.”

⁵ tn Or “and through it killed me.”

⁶ sn An allusion to Ps 143:2.

⁷ tn Grk “because by the works of the law no flesh is justified before him.” Some recent scholars have understood the phrase ἒργα νόμου (erga nomou, “works of the law”) to refer not to obedience to the Mosaic law generally, but specifically to portions of the law that pertain to things like circumcision and dietary laws which set the Jewish people apart from the other nations (e.g., J. D. G. Dunn, Romans [WBC], 1:155). Other interpreters, like C. E. B. Cranfield (“‘The Works of the Law’ in the Epistle to the Romans,” JSNT 43 [1991]: 89-101) reject this narrow interpretation for a number of reasons, among which the most important are: (1) The second half of v. 20, “for through the law comes the knowledge of sin,” is hard to explain if the phrase “works of the law” is understood in a restricted sense; (2) the plural phrase “works of the law” would have to be understood in a different sense from the singular phrase “the work of the law” in 2:15; (3) similar phrases involving the law in Romans (2:13, 14; 2:25, 26, 27; 7:25; 8:4; and 13:8) which are naturally related to the phrase “works of the law” cannot be taken to refer to circumcision (in fact, in 2:25 circumcision is explicitly contrasted with keeping the law). Those interpreters who reject the “narrow” interpretation of “works of the law” understand the phrase to refer to obedience to the Mosaic law in general.

⁸ tn Grk “is.”