Session 4.17: April 10, 2026

About this episode

This episode discusses Romans 7:1-6, focusing on the relationship between the law and grace, illustrated through marriage.

Study session scripture: Romans 7:1-6 Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. Study session topics: The triumph of grace over the power of the law Law is binding only until death Ancient Greek wording omits "the" in v. 1 Paul is talking about a broader…

People in this episode

Host: Matt Christiansen

Topics covered

• triumph of grace
• power of the law
• binding law
• death and obligations
• marriage illustration
• Christian relationship to law

Keywords

• Romans
• law
• grace
• marriage
• Christianity
• Paul
• spirituality

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Books & works: Romans 7:1-6

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