For you naysayers that think I'm taking things out of context. This principle of the husband and the woman is illustrated here in Romans 7.
In the first 3 verses of Romans 7, Paul is giving the earthly example of how a woman is bound to the law of her husband as long as her husband lives. If the husband dies, then the wife is free to marry another.All of this is an Old Testament shadow of the real thing to come in Christ.
Rom 7:1 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?
Rom 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Rom 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
In verses 4 - 6, Paul is showing us the New Testament meaning of verses 1-3.
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Rom 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
We are dead to the law because our flesh has been crucified with Christ. Our soul, the woman, is free to marry another... Christ, our new husband. We are no longer bound to the law when we are in Christ.
In the first 3 verses of Romans 7, Paul is giving the earthly example of how a woman is bound to the law of her husband as long as her husband lives. If the husband dies, then the wife is free to marry another.All of this is an Old Testament shadow of the real thing to come in Christ.
Rom 7:1 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?
Rom 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Rom 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
In verses 4 - 6, Paul is showing us the New Testament meaning of verses 1-3.
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Rom 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
We are dead to the law because our flesh has been crucified with Christ. Our soul, the woman, is free to marry another... Christ, our new husband. We are no longer bound to the law when we are in Christ.
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