Discovery BoxRomans 7:2-3 
Context7:2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her 1 husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage. 2 7:3 So then, 3 if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her 4 husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.
1 tn Grk “the,” with the article used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).
2 tn Grk “husband.”
sn Paul’s example of the married woman and the law of the marriage illustrates that death frees a person from obligation to the law. Thus, in spiritual terms, a person who has died to what controlled us (v. 6) has been released from the law to serve God in the new life produced by the Spirit.
3 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.
4 tn Grk “the,” with the article used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).
