1 Corinthians 7:39

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 6:2

that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

Malachi 2:11

Yehudah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Yisra'el and in Yerushalayim; for Yehudah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

1 Corinthians 7:10

But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband

1 Corinthians 7:15

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in shalom.

1 Corinthians 7:38

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.