Romans 7:1-3 Part 2 of 2

Do you not know, brothers and sisters--for I am speaking to those who know the law--that the law has the authority over someone only as long as that person lives? For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

 

but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him 

1 Corinthians 7:39  A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord. 

if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress 

Luke 16:18  "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery." 

Matthew 5:31-32  "It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.' [Deuteronomy 24:1] But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."

Matthew 19:9  "I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery."

Mark 10:11-12  He answered, "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man she commits adultery."

1 Corinthians 7:10-11  To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

[brackets are mine]

 

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Romans 7:1-3 Part 1 of 2

Do you not know, brothers and sisters--for I am speaking to those who know the law--that the law has the authority over someone only as long as that person lives? For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the the law that binds her to him. So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

 

Do you not know, brothers and sisters 

Acts 1:16  ... "Brothers and sisters, the Scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas, who served as a guide for those who arrested Jesus." 

Acts 6:3  "Brothers and sisters, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over to them ...

Acts 6:29  The disciples, as each one was able, decided to provide help for the brothers and sisters living in Judea.

Acts 14:2  But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the other Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Acts 18:18  Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sisters and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off at Cenchreae because of a vow he had taken.

Acts 18:27  When Apollos wanted to go to Achaia, the brothers and sisters encouraged him and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. When he arrived, he was a great help to those who by grace had believed. 

Acts 21:7  We continued on our voyage from Tyre and landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and sisters and stayed with them for a day.

Romans 1:13  I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

1 Corinthians 1:10  I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.

1 Corinthians 14:20  Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.

Galatians 3:15  Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case.

Galatians 6:18  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.

 

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Romans 6:22-23 Part 2 of 2

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

For the wages of sin is death 

Genesis 2:17  "... but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die."

Proverbs 10:16  The wages of the righteous is life, but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death. 

Ezekiel 18:4  "For everyone belongs to me, the parent as well as the child--both alike belong to me. The one who sins is the one who will die."

Romans 1:32  Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Romans 5:12  Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned--

Romans 7:5  For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.

Romans 8:6  The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

Romans 8:13  For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

Galatians 6:7-8  Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please the flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

James 1:15  Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord 

Matthew 25:46  "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

1 John 5:13  I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

 

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Romans 6:22-23 Part 1 of 2

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

But now that you have been set free from sin 

Romans 6:18  You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. 

and have become slaves of God 

Romans 6:19  I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves of righteousness leading to holiness.

Romans 7:25  Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

1 Corinthians 7:22  For the one who was a slave when called to faith in the Lord is the Lord's freed person; similarly, the one who was free when called is Christ's slave.

Ephesians 6:6  Obey them (your earthly masters) not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.

1 Peter 2:16  Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God's slaves.

the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life 

Matthew 25:46  "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

John 3:16-17  For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

John 3:36  Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them.

 

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Romans 6:19-21

I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!

I am using an example from everyday life 

Romans 3:5  But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) 

Galatians 3:15  Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case.

so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness 

Romans 6:13  Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.

Romans 12:1  Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God--this is your true and proper worship.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15  For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

1 Peter 2:24  "He himself bore our sins" [Isaiah 53:4] in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; "by his wounds you have been healed." [Isaiah 53:5]

 

When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness 

Romans 6:16  Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 

Those things result in death! 

Romans 6:23  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Proverbs 10:16  The wages of the righteous is life, but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.

Romans 8:6  The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

Romans 8:13  For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

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Romans 6:17-18 Part 2 of 2

But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

You have been set free from sin 

Romans 6:2  By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 

Romans 6:6-7  For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin--because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

Romans 8:2  ... because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 

1 Peter 4:1  Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin.

 

and have become slaves to righteousness 

Romans 6:22  But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 

1 Peter 2:16  Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God's slaves.

 

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Romans 6:17-18 Part 1 of 2

But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

But thanks be to God 

Romans 1:8  First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. 

Romans 7:25  Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. 

1 Corinthians 15:56-57  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

2 Corinthians 2:14  But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ's triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.

2 Corinthians 9:15  Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

 

though you used to be slaves to sin 

Romans 6:16  Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience which leads to righteousness?

 

you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance 

2 Timothy 1:13  What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. 

 

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