Romans 7:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

In the same way, my brothers and sisters, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Cross References

Isaiah 54:5

For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth he is called.

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your builder marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

Matthew 26:26

While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

Mark 4:20

And these are the ones sown on the good soil: they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.”

John 15:8

My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.

John 3:29

He who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom who stands and hears him rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. For this reason my joy has been fulfilled.

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Romans 6:11

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:14

For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 6:2

By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

Romans 7:3

Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she belongs to another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she belongs to another man, she is not an adulteress.

Romans 7:6

But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are enslaved in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the written code.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

1 Corinthians 10:16

The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?

2 Corinthians 11:2

I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—

Galatians 5:18

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law.

Ephesians 2:15

abolishing the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace,

Philippians 1:11

having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 4:17

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the profit that accumulates to your account.

Colossians 1:10

so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God.

Colossians 1:22

he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him,

Colossians 1:6

that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and growing in the whole world, so it has been bearing fruit among yourselves from the day you heard it and truly comprehended the grace of God.

Colossians 2:14

erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:20

If with Christ you died to the elemental principles of the world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,

Hebrews 10:10

And it is by God’s will that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

Revelation 19:7

Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready;

Revelation 21:9

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”