Sermon Tone Analysis

Or do you not know, brothers1—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? 2 For ea 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.

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.

3 Accordingly, fshe 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.

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

If she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

4 Likewise, my brothers, gyou also have died hto the law ithrough the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, jin order that we may bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work kin our members lto bear fruit for death.

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.

6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the mnew way of nthe Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.3

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

Not in the old way of the written code