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ROMANS CHAPTER 7
Rom_7:1-3 No law having power over a person longer than he lives,
Rom_7:4 we therefore, being become dead to the law by the body
of Christ, are left free to place ourselves under a
happier dispensation.
Rom_7:5-13 For the law, through the prevalency of corrupt passions,
could only serve as an instrument of sin unto death;
although it be in itself holy, and just, and good.
Rom_7:14-23 As is manifest by our reason approving the precepts of
it, whilst our depraved nature is unable to put them
in practice.
Rom_7:24,25 The wretchedness of man in such a situation, and God’s
mercy in his deliverance from it through Christ.
The apostle, having showed in a former chapter how believers are freed from the dominion of sin, proceeds in this chapter to declare, that they are free also from the yoke of the Mosaical law, because that was dead to them, and they to it. This he illustrates, and proceeds by the familiar allegory of a husband and his wife: Look, as a wife is free from her husband when he is dead, and may then marry another, and be no adulteress; so believers are dead to the law, and are free to be married to another, even to Christ, that is raised from the dead, that upon their marriage they may bring forth fruit unto God.
By the law here he means the law of wedlock, or the law of Moses about that matter, as appears by the instance given in the next verse.
The word man here is common to both sexes, and may be applied to either, for both are subject to the aforementioned law.