Romans 7:3

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

So therefore, if the husband is living, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes another man’s. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so as for her not to be an adulteress by becoming another man’s.

Cross References

Exodus 20:14

You shall not commit adultery.

Leviticus 20:10

And a man who commits adultery with a man’s wife, who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, the adulterer and the adulteress dying shall die.

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife, apart from a matter of fornication, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever shall marry the one put away commits adultery.

Romans 7:2

For the married woman was bound by law to the living husband; but if the husband dies, she is set free from the law of the husband.

Romans 7:4

So that, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, for you to become Another’s, to the One having been raised from the dead, so that we may bear fruit to God.

Ruth 2:13

And she said, Let me find grace in your eyes, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken to the heart of your handmaid. And I surely am not as one of your handmaids.