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Rom.7:1 Or don't you know, brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

The Apostle Paul speak to brothers and sister that know the Law given to Moses or termed the Old Law. Here he states a fact of the Law; that as long as person is alive they are under the Law, they are freed from the Law at their death, but why?

Because the wages of sin is death, the Law exposes sin in us, and convicts us of that sin, the penalty for our sin is death. So as long as we are alive in our flesh we under God’s Law of judgment we cannot get around it once we know the Law. But Paul is setting the stage for a much large discussion of God’s Law, that is, the power of Christ
Jesus to free us from the Law while still alive in our flesh.

The Apostle Paul will used the Laws power and the sacred relationship of marriage in proving beyond a shadow of doubt why the Law had to be removed in order for us to be in Christ Jesus and brought into peace with God.

Rom. 7:2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Under the Law men held ownership of their wife/wives, because God allowed such through His own Law, the husbands lesser laws were also binding upon the woman, so as long as her husband lived she was bond to him by his rules, or laws. There was no human power that could remove the husbands law over his wife accept his death, or hers, why?

Once again the wages of sins are paid for with the death of the sinner; so at death the Law is fulfilled in that person case, it no longer has power over the person because they have paid the price for their sins on earth. Thus, a woman would be free of her husbands laws/rules, but not free of God’s Law herself because she is still alive.

So the Apostle Paul makes the point of how we are freed from God’s Law which is through our death. We must died to be set free from the obligation or payment of the Law for our sins, otherwise we are still sinners condemn to death penalty for sin. In other words, once convicted for the crime one must pay the penalty of the crime, if one escapes the penalty it has not been paid, thus, as long as the person is “alive” they have not escaped the penalty for their crime still hanging over their head, death.

If they die on the run the penalty for their crime cannot go beyond death, the law is satisfied with the penalty of death any other lesser laws of man are also paid for by the death of the criminal. They cannot be executed against him they’ve paid the price by their death, furthermore they have also paid the price for their sins against God’s Law.

So if we understand the penalty of sin is death, or we do not, we all pay the price. Moreover, if a person lives a godless life running with the world they pay no greater payment for their sins than one does living according to God’s Laws. The wages sins pays is death.

Rom.6:7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.