Romans 7:4

Believers died to the law through Christ's body so they could belong to the risen Christ and bear fruit for God. We are released from the law to be united to Jesus.

Cross-references · 32

• 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Isa 54:5For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.
• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• Eph 5:23–27For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
• Rom 7:6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
• Gal 2:19–20For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
• Eph 2:15having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;
• Gal 5:18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
• Rom 6:22But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
• Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
• Col 1:22yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
• Rom 6:14For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
• Col 2:14wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
• Col 1:10that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Phil 1:11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
• Hos 2:19–20I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
• Rev 19:7Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”
• Rom 6:2May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
• Col 2:20If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
• Phil 4:17Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
• John 3:29He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
• Matt 26:26As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”
• Ps 45:10–16Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.
• Col 1:6which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
• 2 Cor 11:2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
• Rev 21:9One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride.”
• Isa 62:5For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
• John 6:51I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
• John 15:8“In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
• 1 Cor 10:16The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?
• Heb 10:10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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