“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?”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Romans 7 contains 25 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.