1

Know 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?

2

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.

3

So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

4

Wherefore, 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.

5

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

6

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.