Romans 7:2-3 ASV

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 7:1-17

The position of the Law under the New Testament. The apostle is here continuing his discussion of the immoral suggestion to which he alluded in the previous chapter ( Romans 7:15 ), "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace?" I. THE RELATION OF THE LAW TO THE CHRISTIAN . 1. he Christian's union with Christ involves his freedom from the Law. 2. But this union with Christ and freedom from the Law do not imply that he is free... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 7:2-4

For (this is an instance of the application of the general principle, adduced as suiting the subject in band) the woman that hath an husband ( ὕπανδρος , implying subjection, meaning properly, that is under an husband ) is bound to her living husband; but if the husband die, she is loosed ( κατήργηται ; cf. Romans 7:6 and Galatians 5:4 . The word expresses the entire abolition of the claim of the husband's law over her) from the law of the husband. So then if,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Romans 7:2

For the woman - This verse is a specific illustration of the general principle in Romans 7:1, that death dissolves those connections and relations which make law binding in life. It is a simple illustration; and if this had been kept in mind, it would have saved much of the perplexity which has been felt by many commentators, and much of their wild vagaries in endeavoring to show that “men are the wife, the law of the former husband, and Christ the new one;” or that “the old man is the wife,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Romans 7:3

So then if ... - compare Matthew 5:32.She shall be called - She will be. The word used here χρηματίσει chrēmatisei is often used to denote being called by an oracle or by divine revelation. But it is here employed in the simple sense of being commonly called, or of being so regarded. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Romans 7:1-3

Romans 7:1-3. Know ye not, brethren The apostle, having shown that justified and regenerated persons are free from the dominion of sin, shows here that they are also free from the yoke of the Mosaic law, it being dead to them, Romans 7:6; and they to it, Romans 7:4: for I speak to them that know the law To the Jews or proselytes chiefly here; that the law The Mosaic dispensation in general, to which you were espoused by Moses; hath dominion over a man Over a Jew married to it, and... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Romans 7:1-25

The law cannot help (7:1-25)Through Christ, believers have not only died to sin, they have died to the law also, which means that their lives are now different. Paul gives an example. If a husband dies, the wife is no longer bound to him and is free to marry again. Likewise believers have died to the law so that the bond between them and the law is broken. However, they have been raised to new life and are now united to another, the living Christ (7:1-4). Formerly, they found that the more the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Romans 7:2

which hath, &c . Greek. hupandros. Only here. husband . App-123 . so long, &c. Literally while living. if . App-118 . be dead = should have died. loosed = free. Greek. katargeo. See Romans 3:3 . from . App-104 . he = the. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Romans 7:3

be married to . Literally become for. another . App-124 . man . App-123 . be called . Greek. chrematizo. See Luke 2:26 . that = the. no = not ( App-105 ) an This is an illustration of the fact that death breaks all bonds; husband and wife, master and servant. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Romans 7:2

Romans 7:2. For the woman, &c.— St. Paul goes on to explain his meaning by a familiar instance. He chooses to set the Jew in a more honourable light while under the law, than he does the Gentiles while under their heathen state. The Gentiles are compared to slaves, in a state of the lowest and vilest servitude; chap. Romans 6:16, &c.:—the Jews to a wife, in a state of subjection indeed, but far more honourable than that of a slave. See Doddridge. read more