"Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?"
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And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?
Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Or don't you know, brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
Are ye ignorant, brethren -- for to those knowing law I speak -- that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?