Dead to the Law That You May be Bound to Another

"Christ, by the glorious victory of the cross, first triumphed
over sin; and that he might do this, it was necessary that the
handwriting, by which we were held bound, should be cancelled.
This handwriting was the law, which, while it continued in force,
rendered us bound to serve sin; and hence it is called the power of
sin. It was then by cancelling this handwriting that we were
delivered through the body of Christ — through his body as fixed
to the cross. But the Apostle goes farther, and says, that the bond of
the law was destroyed; not that we may live according to our own
will…but that we may be now bound to another husband; nay, that
we may pass from hand to hand, as they say, that is, from the law to
Christ. He at the same time softens the [sharpness] of the
expression, by saying that Christ, in order to join us to his own
body, made us free from the yoke of the law. For though Christ
subjected himself for a time of his own accord to the law, it is not
yet right to say that the law ruled over him. Moreover, he conveys
to his own members the liberty which he himself possesses. It is
then no wonder that he exempts those from the yoke of the law,
whom he unites by a sacred bond to himself, that they may be one
body in him." – John Calvin