Romans 7:1-4

¹Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know law), that the law has authority over someone only as long as he lives?

²For example, a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if the man should die, she is released from the law about the husband.

³So then, if she should ‘marry’ another man while her husband is living, she will be labeled an adulteress; but if the husband should die, she is free from that law, not being an adulteress if she marries another man.

⁴Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of the Christ so as to belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—so that we should produce fruit to God.