Romans 7:2
2For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her ▼▼tn Grk “the,” with the article used as a possessive pronoun (
ExSyn 215).
husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage. ▼ ▼▼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.