Romans 7:1

WEB

¹Or don’t you know, brothers^[+] for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

KJV

¹Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

BSB

¹Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

FBV

¹Brothers and sisters (I'm speaking here to people who know the law),^[+] t you see that the law has authority over someone only while they're alive?

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Extra References

Romans 6:14

¹⁴For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 7:6

⁶But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

Romans 6:3

³Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Proverbs 6:23

²³For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Romans 10:1

¹Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

Galatians 4:21

²¹Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

Romans 9:3

³For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

1 Corinthians 9:8

⁸Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

Romans 2:17-18

¹⁷Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God, ¹⁸know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Romans 1:13

¹³Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (and was hindered so far), that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.