Romans 7:1

The Believer’s Relationship to the Law

7:1 Or do you not know, brothers and sisters ¹  (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person ²  as long as he lives?

Romans 7:4

7:4 So, my brothers and sisters, ³  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. ⁴ 

Romans 6:2

6:2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

[7:1]  ¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[7:1]  ² sn Here person refers to a human being.

[7:4]  ³ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[7:4]  ⁴ tn Grk “that we might bear fruit to God.”