Romans 7:3

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Exodus 20:14

You shall not commit adultery.

Leviticus 20:10

If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful) causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. Teaching About Oaths.

Romans 7:2

Thus a married woman is bound by law to her living husband; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law in respect to her husband.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Ruth 2:13

She said, “May I prove worthy of your favor, my lord. You have comforted me. You have spoken to the heart of your servant—and I am not even one of your servants!”