Romans 7:3

Marriage Faithfulness and loyalty

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 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.

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 adulteress, though she be married to another man.

⁴ Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.
KJV: 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 adulteress, though she be married to another man.
WEB: So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
ASV: So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.
DARBY: so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.
BLB: So then, of the husband being alive, if she becomes unto another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, [so as] not for her to be an adulteress, having become unto another man.

ÅB: Derfor regnes hun som en ekteskapsbryterske om hun gifter seg med en annen mann mens mannen enda lever. Men dersom mannen dør, er hun fri fra loven, så hun ikke blir en ekteskapsbryterske om hun gifter seg med en annen mann.
OTB: Så da, hvis hun er med en annen mann mens mannen hennes fortsatt lever, kalles hun en ekteskapsbryterinne; men hvis mannen hennes dør, er hun fri fra den loven, så hun er ikke en ekteskapsbryterinne hvis hun er med en annen mann.
B1930: Derfor skal hun kalles en horkvinne om hun, mens mannen lever, ekter en annen mann; men dersom mannen dør, er hun fri fra loven, så hun ikke blir en horkvinne om hun ekter en annen mann.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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Matthew 5:32
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
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Mark 10:6–12
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
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1 Timothy 5:11–14
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
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John 8:3–5
And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
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Leviticus 20:10
And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
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Deuteronomy 22:22–24
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
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Ruth 2:13
Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
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