Romans 7:2

A Conservative Version

For the woman under authority to the living husband has been bound by law, but if the husband should die, she has been released from the law of the husband.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound by law as long a time as her husband lives, but also if the husband should sleep, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife has not the right of her private body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband has not the right of his private body, but the wife.

Romans 7:3

So then, of the living husband, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes to another man, but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, for her not to be an adulteress having become to another man.

Romans 7:6

But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.