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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 7:3

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 7:3

Romans 7:3. If—she be married to another man— If—she become the property of another; or become another man's. The Apostle here speaks in the general, not entering exactly into every excepted case which might be imagined. To infer therefore, contrary to our Lord's express decision elsewhere, that adultery is not a sufficient foundation for divorce, seems very unreasonable. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Romans 7:3

3. she be married—"joined." So Romans 7:4. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 7:1-6

1. The law’s authority 7:1-6 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 7:2-3

These verses illustrate the truth of the principle stated in Romans 7:1. The law binds a wife to her husband. Paul’s example was especially true in Jewish life where the Mosaic Law did not permit a woman to divorce her husband. In the illustration the wife represents the believer and the husband the Law."As a woman whose husband has died is free to marry another, so also are believers, since they have died to the law, free to belong to Christ." [Note: Mounce, p. 160.] read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:1-25

The Inadequacy of the Law to save1-6. St. Paul had spoken of the Law in a way which would offend an earnest Jew: cp. Romans 3:20-21; Romans 4:15; Romans 5:20. In this chapter (Romans 7:7-25) he shows that the Law is divine in its character and beneficent in its work, but unable to free a man from the power of sin. Indeed, though not the cause, it is the occasion of sin. But first, in Romans 5:1-6, the statement in Romans 6:14, that Christians are not under law, is enforced and explained. Law... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:1-6

VII.(1-6) The Apostle takes up an idea to which he had alluded in Romans 7:14-15 of the preceding chapter, “Ye are not under the Law, but under grace;” and as he had worked out the conclusion of the death of the Christian to sin, so now he works out that of his death to the Law. This he does by an illustration borrowed from the marriage-bond. That bond is dissolved by the death of one of the parties to it. And in like manner the death of the Christian with Christ releases him from his... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 7:1-25

Romans 7:0 Dr. Marcus Dods wrote at the age of twenty-six: 'Whatever Paul says of the law in the seventh of Romans I have found true of the ministry; no doubt it is holy in itself, but in me it has revealed and excited an amount of sin that has slain me. Other people with stronger natures may have, doubtless have, endured a great deal more, but I could not have endured more misery than I have done since I began to preach.' Early Letters, p. 179. Romans 7:1 Ever since the Epistle to the Romans... read more