7Or do you not know, abrothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the lawismasterover a person as long as he lives? 2For athe marriedwoman has been bound by law to her 1husband while he isliving, but if her husbanddies, she is released from the law2concerning the husband.
Romans 7:4
4So, my brothers, you also were amadetodiebto the Lawcthrough the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, inorderthat we might bearfruit for God.
Romans 6:1-14
Dead to Sin, Alive to God
6aWhat shall we saythen? Are we to bcontinue in sinso that grace may increase? 2aMay it never be! How shall we whobdied to sinstilllive in it? 3Or do you not know that all of us who were abaptized into bChristJesus were baptized into His death? 4Therefore we were aburied with Him throughbaptism into death, so that as Christ was braised from the deadthrough the cglory of the Father, so we too might walk in dnewness of life. 5For aif we have become1united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be 2in the likeness of His resurrection, 6knowingthis, that our aoldman was bcrucified with Him,inorderthat our cbody of sin might be 1doneawaywith, so that we would nolonger be slaves to sin; 7for ahe who has died has been 1justified from sin.
8Nowaif we died with Christ, we believe that we shall alsolive with Him, 9knowing that Christ, having been araised from the dead, 1is never to dieagain; bdeathnolonger is masterover Him. 10For the death that He died, He died to sinonceforall, but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11Evensoconsideryourselves to be adead to sin, but alive to God in ChristJesus.
12Therefore do not let sinareign in your mortalbodyso that you obey its lusts, 13and do not go on apresenting your members to sinas1instruments of unrighteousness, but bpresentyourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your membersas2instruments of righteousness to God. 14For asin shall not bbe masterover you, for cyou are not underlaw but dundergrace.