Romans 7:3

English Majority Text Version

So then, while the husband is living, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes married to a different husband; but if her husband should die, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, having become married to a different husband.

Cross References

Matthew 5:32

"But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for a matter of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorcee commits adultery.

Romans 7:2

For the woman who is under a man has been bound by law to the living husband. But if the husband should die, she is released from the law of the husband.

Romans 7:4

Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another--to Him who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit to God.