Romans 7:2

The English Standar Version

Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.[2]

Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom 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.

Romans 7:3

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

Romans 7:6

But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.