Romans 7:2

For the woman who is under a man has been bound by law to the living husband. But if the husband should die, she is released from the law of the husband.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

In Context

1Or do you not know, brothers (for I speak to those knowing the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a man as long as he lives?

3So then, while the husband is living, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes married to a different husband; but if her husband should die, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, having become married to a different husband.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:4The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Matthew Henry on Romans 7:2-7

Observations Respecting the Law. ( a. d. 58.) 1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 2 For the woman which hath a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no… Read the whole commentary →

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