1. Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I speak to those who know law), that the law is master over a person as long as he lives?
2. For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives; but if the husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
3. So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law—so she is not an adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
4. Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were made dead to the Torah through the body of Messiah, so that you might be joined to another—the One who was raised from the dead—in order that we might bear fruit for God.
5. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions that came through the Torah were working in our body parts to bear fruit for death.
6. But now we have been released from the law, having died to what confined us, so that we serve in the new way of the Ruach and not in the old way of the letter.