Romans 7:2

The Text-Critical English New Testament

For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning her husband.

Cross References

Romans 7:3

So then, she will be called an adulteress if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not committing adultery if she is joined to another man.

Romans 7:6

But now we have been released from the law, having died to that by which we were held, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound by the law to her husband for as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to anyone she wishes, but only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:4

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.