Romans 7:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ 1 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me, and by it killed me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Accordingly, she will be held an adulteress if she unites herself to another man while her husband lives. But if her husband dies, the marriage law no longer is binding on her [she is free from that law]; and if she unites herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

Common English Bible

³ So then, if she lives with another man while her husband is alive, she’s committing adultery. But if her husband dies, she’s free from the Law, so she won’t be committing adultery if she marries someone else.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Therefore, while her husband lives, if she has been with another man, she should be called an adulteress. But when her husband has died, she is freed from the law of her husband, such that, if she has been with another man, she is not an adulteress.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an adulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead, she is delivered from the law of her husband; so that she is not an adulteress, if she be with another man.

Romans 7:3 Cross References

Exodus 20:14

7 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house: neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.

Leviticus 20:10

5 He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him die, the beast also ye shall kill.

Matthew 5:32

0 And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him.

Romans 7:2

0 And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.

Romans 7:4

2 Wherefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Ruth 2:13

8 Which she took up and returned into the city, and shewed it to her mother in law: moreover she brought out, and gave her of the remains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.