1. Or do you not know, brothers – for I speak to those knowing the Torah – that the Torah rules over a man as long as he lives?
2. For the married woman has been bound by Torah to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she is released from the Torah concerning her husband.
3. So then, while her husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she becomes another man’s. But if her husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah, so that she is not an adulteress, having become another man’s.
4. So my brothers, you also were put to death to the Torah through the body of Messiah, for you to become another’s, the One who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to Elohim.
5. For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, through the Torah, were working in our members to bear fruit to death.
6. But now we have been released from the Torah, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in newness of Spirit and not in oldness of letter.
7. What, then, shall we say? Is the Torah sin? Let it not be! However, I did not know sin except through the Torah. For also the covetousness I knew not if the Torah had not said, “You shall not covet.”