Romans 7:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Thus a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.

Cross References

Romans 7:3

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

Romans 7:6

But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are enslaved in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the written code.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound as long as her husband lives. But if the husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:4

For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.