Romans 7:1-3 ▼

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

2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.

3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she is called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she is joined to another man.