Romans 7:3

The Scriptures 1998

So then, while her husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she becomes another man’s. But if her husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah, so that she is not an adulteress, having become another man’s.

Cross References

Exodus 20:14

“You do not commit adultery.

Leviticus 20:10

‘And a man who commits adultery with the wife of another man, who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbour: the adulterer and the adulteress shall certainly be put to death.

Matthew 5:32

“But I say to you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the matter of whoring, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a woman who has been put away commits adultery.

Romans 7:2

For the married woman has been bound by Torah to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she is released from the Torah concerning her husband.

Romans 7:4

So my brothers, you also were put to death to the Torah through the body of Messiah, for you to become another’s, the One who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to Elohim.

Ruth 2:13

And she said, “Let me find favour in your eyes, my master, because you have comforted me, and have spoken to the heart of your female servant, though I am not like one of your female servants.”