Romans 7:1

In 9 translations

BSB

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

KJV

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?

WEB

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

ASV

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth?

LSV

Are you ignorant, brothers—for to those knowing law I speak—that the law has lordship over the man as long as he lives?

YLT

Are ye ignorant, brethren — for to those knowing law I speak — that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

DBY

Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?

DRC

Know you not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) that the law hath dominion over a man, as long as it liveth?

GNV

Knowe yee not, brethren, (for I speake to them that knowe the Lawe) that the Lawe hath dominion ouer a man as long as he liueth?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT

Ἢ ἀγνοεῖτε, ἀδελφοί, γινώσκουσιν γὰρ νόμον λαλῶ, ὅτι ὁ νόμος κυριεύει τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐφʼ ὅσον χρόνον ζῇ;

RP2018

Ἢ ἀγνοεῖτε, ἀδελφοί- γινώσκουσιν γὰρ νόμον λαλῶ- ὅτι ὁ νόμος κυριεύει τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐφ’ ὅσον χρόνον ζῇ;

TR-Boyd

Ἢ ἀγνοεῖτε, ἀδελφοί — γινώσκουσι γὰρ νόμον λαλῶ — ὅτι ὁ νόμος κυριεύει τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐφ᾿ ὅσον χρόνον ζῇ;

SCR1894

η αγνοειτε αδελφοι γινωσκουσιν γαρ νομον λαλω οτι ο νομος κυριευει του ανθρωπου εφ οσον χρονον ζη

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Romans 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
• Romans 7:6But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
• Romans 6:3Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
• Romans 10:1Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.
• Proverbs 6:23For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
• Galatians 4:21Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?
• Romans 9:3For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
• 1 Corinthians 9:8Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
• Romans 2:17–18Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;
• Romans 1:13I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other…
• Ezra 7:25And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which you possess, are to appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people west of the Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach these…

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