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Romans 7:4

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4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

KJV

4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

BSB

4Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

FBV

4In the same way, my friends, you've become dead to the law through the body of Christ, and so now you belong to someone elseChrist, who was raised from the dead so that we could live productive lives[+] for God.

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Extra References

1 Peter 2:24

24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.


Galatians 5:22-23

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,23[+] gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.


Isaiah 54:5

5For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.


Romans 8:2

2[+] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.


Ephesians 5:23-27

23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. 24But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect.


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.


Galatians 2:19-20

19For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. 20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.


Ephesians 2:15

15having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,


Galatians 5:18

18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.


Galatians 3:13

13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”