Romans 7:3

7:3 So then, ¹  if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her ²  husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.

Romans 7:6

7:6 But now we have been released from the law, because we have died ³  to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code. ⁴ 

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¹ tn There is a double connective here that cannot be easily preserved in English: “consequently therefore,” emphasizing the conclusion of what he has been arguing.

² tn Grk “the,” with the article used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

³ tn Grk “having died.” The participle ἀποθανόντες (apoqanonte") has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.

⁴ tn Grk “in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.”