Roma 7:11

7:11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died. ¹ 

Roma 7:2

7:2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her ²  husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage. ³ 

1 Korintus 11:3

11:3 But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, ⁴  and God is the head of Christ.

1 Korintus 11:1

11:1 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

1 Timotius 2:14

2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, because she was fully deceived, ⁵  fell into transgression. ⁶ 

[7:11]  ¹ tn Or “and through it killed me.”

[7:2]  ² tn Grk “the,” with the article used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[7:2]  ³ tn Grk “husband.”

[7:2]  sn Paul’s example of the married woman and the law of the marriage illustrates that death frees a person from obligation to the law. Thus, in spiritual terms, a person who has died to what controlled us (v. 6) has been released from the law to serve God in the new life produced by the Spirit.

[11:3]  ⁴ tn Or “the husband is the head of his wife.” The same Greek words translated “man” and “woman” can mean, as determined by context, “husband” and “wife” respectively. Such an approach is followed by NAB, TEV, NRSV, and NLT (with some variations).

[2:14]  ⁵ tn This phrase uses a compound form of the same verb as in v. 14a: “deceived” vs. “deceived out, completely deceived.” The two verbs could be synonymous, but because of the close contrast in this context, it seems that a stronger meaning is intended for the second verb.

[2:14]  ⁶ tn Grk “has come to be in transgression” (with an emphasis on the continuing consequences of that fall).