Romans 7:1-4

¹My fellow believers, you know about laws. So you certainly know (OR, I want you to remember) that people have to obey laws PRS only while they are alive. RHQ

²For example, a woman is required by the law {the law requires a woman} to obey and be faithful to her husband as long as he is alive. But if her husband dies, she is freed from having to { no longer has to} obey the law about remaining married to her husband.

³Therefore, a woman will be called {people will call a woman} an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she no longer has to obey that law. Then she will not be an adulteress if she marries another man.

⁴Likewise, my fellow believers, just like people are free from having to obey any law after they die MET, you and I have been freed { God has freed you and me} from having to obey all the Jewish rituals and laws MET. That is because it is as though we died with Christ when he was crucified. Now you and I belong to someone else MET, like a woman who marries again after her husband dies belongs to another man. Specifically, you and I belong to Christ, who has come back to life {whom God has caused to live again after he died}, in order that we may live righteously IDM to honor God.