Romans 7:1 “Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law…”

Romans 7:1

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

World English Bible

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

American Standard Version

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth?

Geneva Bible 1599

Knowe yee not, brethren, (for I speake to them that knowe the Lawe) that the Lawe hath dominion ouer a man as long as he liueth?

Darby Translation

Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?

Young's Literal Translation

Are ye ignorant, brethren — for to those knowing law I speak — that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

Bible in Basic English

Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

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Cross references

“Know”

Romans 6:3

Romans 6:3 · BSB

Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

“brethren”

Romans 10:1 Romans 9:3

Romans 10:1 · BSB

Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.

Romans 9:3 · BSB

For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,

“them that”

Proverbs 6:23 Galatians 4:21 1 Corinthians 9:8 Ezra 7:25 Romans 2:17 Romans 2:18

Proverbs 6:23 · BSB

For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

Galatians 4:21 · BSB

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?

1 Corinthians 9:8 · BSB

Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?

Ezra 7:25 · BSB

And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God, which you possess, are to appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people west of the Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach these law…

Romans 2:17 · BSB

Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

Romans 2:18 · BSB

if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;

“the law”

Romans 6:14 Romans 7:6

Romans 6:14 · BSB

For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 7:6 · BSB

But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

Also

Romans 1:13

Romans 1:13 · BSB

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

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