Romans 7 · a question people ask
"for I speak to men who know the law" (7:1). Who are the "brothers" this chapter speaks to?
The chapter names them only in its own words: "Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law)" (7:1), and "Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ" (7:4). From there it says "we": "that we might produce fruit to God" (7:4), and "But now we have been discharged from the law" (7:6). The chapter doesn't say whether these brothers are Jews, Gentiles or both, and these notes don't say either. What it does say of them is in 7:4: "that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead" (7:4).
The verses
“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?”
“Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.”
“But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.”