Romans 7:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Thus a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For [instance] a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is loosed and discharged from the law concerning her husband.

American Standard Version (1901)

² For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Common English Bible

² A married woman is united with her husband under the Law while he is alive. But if her husband dies, she is released from the Law concerning her husband.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² For example, a woman who is subject to a husband is obligated by the law while her husband lives. But when her husband has died, she is released from the law of her husband.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Romans 7:2 Cross References

Romans 7:3

Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she belongs to another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she belongs to another man, she is not an adulteress.

Romans 7:6

But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are enslaved in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the written code.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound as long as her husband lives. But if the husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:4

For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.