Romans 7:4
Good News Translation
That is how it is with you, my friends. As far as the Law is concerned, you also have died because you are part of the body of Christ; and now you belong to him who was raised from death in order that we might be useful in the service of God.

New Revised Standard Version
In the same way, my friends, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Contemporary English Version
That is how it is with you, my friends. You are now part of the body of Christ and are dead to the power of the Law. You are free to belong to Christ, who was raised to life so we could serve God.

New American Bible
In the same way, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ: that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead that we may bring forth fruit to God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ: that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead that we may bring forth fruit to God.

ye also.

Romans 7:6 But now we are loosed from the law of death wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

Romans 8:2 For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death.

Galatians 2:19,20 For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God; with Christ I am nailed to the cross. . . .

Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us (for it is written: Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree).

Galatians 5:18 But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.

Ephesians 2:15 Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees: that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace

Colossians 2:14,20 Blotting out the handwriting of the decree that was against us, which was contrary to us. And he hath taken the same out of the way, fastening it to the cross. . . .

the body.

Matthew 26:26 And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread and blessed and broke and gave to his disciples and said: Take ye and eat. This is my body.

John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. [52] If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.

1 Corinthians 10:16 The chalice of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord?

Hebrews 10:10 In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.

1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

that ye.

Psalm 45:10-15 Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house. . . .

Isaiah 54:5 For he that made thee shall rule over thee, the Lord of hosts is his name: and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, shall be called the God of all the earth.

Isaiah 62:5 For the young man shall dwell with the virgin, and thy children shall dwell in thee. And the bridegroom shall rejoice over the bride, and thy God shall rejoice over thee.

Hosea 2:19,20 And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and I will espouse thee to me in justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and in commiserations. . . .

John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth Him, rejoiceth with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled.

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Ephesians 5:23-27 Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body. . . .

Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb is come: and his wife hath prepared herself.

Revelation 21:9 And there came one of the seven angels, who had the vials full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying: Come and I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

that we.

Romans 6:22 But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.

Psalm 45:16 Instead of thy fathers, sons are born to thee: thou shalt make them princes over all the earth.

John 15:8 In this is my Father glorified: that you bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples.

Galatians 5:22,23 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, . . .

Philippians 1:11 Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 4:17 Not that I seek the gift: but I seek the fruit that may abound to your account.

Colossians 1:6,10 Which is come unto you, as also it is in the whole world and bringeth forth fruit and groweth, even as it doth in you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth. . . .

Context
Release from the Law
3Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an adulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead, she is delivered from the law of her husband: so that she is not an adulteress, if she be with another man. 4Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ: that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead that we may bring forth fruit to God. 5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.…
Cross References
Mark 4:20
And these are they who are sown upon the good ground, who hear the word, and receive it, and yield fruit, the one thirty, another sixty, and another a hundred.

Romans 6:2
God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?

Romans 6:11
So do you also reckon that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

Romans 6:22
But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.

Romans 7:3
Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an adulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead, she is delivered from the law of her husband: so that she is not an adulteress, if she be with another man.

Romans 7:6
But now we are loosed from the law of death wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Romans 8:2
For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death.

Galatians 2:19
For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God; with Christ I am nailed to the cross.

Galatians 5:18
But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.

Colossians 1:22
Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted and blameless before him:

Romans 7:3
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