Roma 7:18

7:18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it. 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 

[7:18]  ¹ tn Grk “For to wish is present in/with me, but not to do it.”

[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.