Roma 1:7

1:7 To all those loved by God in Rome, ¹  called to be saints: ²  Grace and peace to you ³  from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

Roma 7:2

7:2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her ⁴  husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage. ⁵ 

[1:7]  ¹ map For location see JP4 A1.

[1:7]  ² tn Although the first part of v. 7 is not a complete English sentence, it maintains the “From…to” pattern used in all the Pauline letters to indicate the sender and the recipients. Here, however, there are several intervening verses (vv. 2-6), which makes the first half of v. 7 appear as an isolated sentence fragment.

[1:7]  ³ tn Grk “Grace to you and peace.”

[7:2]  ⁴ tn Grk “the,” with the article used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[7:2]  ⁵ 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.