Romans 7:2

American Standard Version (1901)

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:39 : 39 A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
  • Gen 2:23-24 : 23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
  • Num 30:7-8 : 7 and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he heareth it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. 8 But if her husband disallow her in the day that he heareth it, then he shall make void her vow which is upon her, and the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul: and Jehovah will forgive her.
  • 1 Cor 7:4 : 4 The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 7:3-4
    2 verses
    93%

    3So 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.

    4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, [even] to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

  • 1 Cor 7:38-40
    3 verses
    92%

    38So then both he that giveth his own virgin [daughter] in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.

    39A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

    40But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

  • Rom 7:1
    86%

    1Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth?

  • 1 Cor 7:27-29
    3 verses
    80%

    27Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

    28But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

    29But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

  • 1 Cor 7:10-16
    7 verses
    80%

    10But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

    11(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

    12But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

    13And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

    14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

    15Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such [cases] : but God hath called us in peace.

    16For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

  • 1 Cor 7:1-4
    4 verses
    76%

    1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

    2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

    4The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:33-34
    2 verses
    75%

    33but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

    34and is divided. [So] also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

  • Matt 22:25-28
    4 verses
    75%

    25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first married and deceased, and having no seed left his wife unto his brother;

    26in like manner the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.

    27And after them all, the woman died.

    28In the resurrection therefore whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.

  • Num 30:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6And if she be [married] to a husband, while her vows are upon her, or the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul,

    7and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he heareth it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

  • Deut 24:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife] .

    3And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

  • Num 30:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, [even] everything wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand against her.

    10And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

  • Mark 10:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her:

    12and if she herself shall put away her husband, and marry another, she committeth adultery.

  • Rom 7:6
    73%

    6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

  • Luke 20:32-33
    2 verses
    73%

    32Afterward the woman also died.

    33In the resurrection therefore whose wife of them shall she be? for the seven had her to wife.

  • Mark 12:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22and the seven left no seed. Last of all the woman also died.

    23In the resurrection whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:8
    72%

    8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

  • Rom 6:7
    72%

    7for he that hath died is justified from sin.

  • 1 Cor 7:36
    71%

    36But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin [daughter], if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.

  • Luke 20:29-30
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    71%

    29There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died childless;

    30and the second:

  • Deut 25:5
    71%

    5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

  • Mark 10:7
    71%

    7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;

  • Num 30:12
    70%

    12But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and Jehovah will forgive her.

  • Gal 2:19
    70%

    19For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

  • Luke 16:18
    70%

    18Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.