³ So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress.^(A) But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

⁴ So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law^(B) through the body of Christ,^(C) that you might belong to another,^(D) to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. ⁵ For when we were in the realm of the flesh,^[a](E) the sinful passions aroused by the law^(F) were at work in us,^(G) so that we bore fruit for death.^(H)