Romans 7:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she will be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she is married to another man.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Consequently, while her husband is still alive, she would be called an adulteress if she joins herself to another man; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so she would not be an adulteress by becoming another man’s wife.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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 fm that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    So{G686} then{G3767} if,{G1437} while{G2198} the husband{G435} liveth,{G2198} she be joined{G1096} to{G435} another{G2087} man,{G435} she shall be called{G5537} an adulteress:{G3428} but{G1161} if{G1437} the husband{G435} die,{G599} she is{G2076} free{G1658} from{G575} the law,{G3551} so that{G3588} she{G846} is{G1511} no{G3361} adulteress,{G3428} though she be joined{G1096} to{G435} another{G2087} man.{G435}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    So then{G686}{G3767} if{G1437}, while her husband{G435} liveth{G2198}{(G5723)}, she be married{G1096}{(G5638)} to another{G2087} man{G435}, she shall be called{G5537}{(G5692)} an adulteress{G3428}: but{G1161} if{G1437} her husband{G435} be dead{G599}{(G5632)}, she is{G2076}{(G5748)} free{G1658} from{G575} that law{G3551}; so that she{G846} is{G1511}{(G5750)} no{G3361} adulteress{G3428}, though she be married{G1096}{(G5637)} to another{G2087} man{G435}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    So then yf whill the man liveth she couple her selfe with another man she shalbe counted a wedlocke breaker. But yf the man be deed she is fre fro the lawe: so that she is no wedlocke breaker though she couple her selfe with another man.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Yf she be now with another man, whyle the man lyueth, she shal be called a wedlocke breaker. But yf the man be deed, then is she fre from the lawe, so that she is no wedlocke breaker, yf she be with another man.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    So then, if while the man liueth, she taketh another man, she shalbe called an adulteresse: but if the man be dead, she is free fro the Law, so that shee is not an adulteresse, though shee take another man.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    So then yf whyle the man lyueth, she couple her selfe with another man, she shalbe counted a wedlocke breaker: But yf the man be dead, she is free from the law, so that she is no wedlocke breaker, though she couple her selfe with another man.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 5:32 : 32 But I say to you, that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.
  • Mark 10:6-9 : 6 But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. 7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And the two shall become one flesh: so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. 10 And in the house his disciples asked him again about the same matter. 11 And he said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. 12 And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.
  • John 8:3-5 : 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought to him a woman caught in adultery; and when they had set her in the middle, 4 They said to him, Master, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned: but what do you say?
  • 1 Tim 5:11-14 : 11 But refuse the younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry; 12 Having condemnation because they have cast off their first faith. 13 And besides, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but also gossipers and busybodies, speaking things they ought not. 14 Therefore I desire that the younger women marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
  • Exod 20:14 : 14 You shall not commit adultery.
  • Lev 20:10 : 10 And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
  • Num 5:13-31 : 13 And a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected, though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, nor is she caught in the act; 14 And if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself: 15 Then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, one-tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance. 16 And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the LORD: 17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water: 18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD and uncover the woman’s head, and put the grain offering of remembrance in her hands, which is the jealousy offering; and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse: 19 And the priest shall make her swear an oath, and say to the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of your husband, be free from this bitter water that brings a curse: 20 But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband: 21 Then the priest shall make the woman swear with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh waste away and your belly swell; 22 And this water that brings a curse shall go into your bowels, to make your belly swell and your thigh waste away. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: 24 And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse; and the water that brings a curse shall enter into her and become bitter. 25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it on the altar: 26 And the priest shall take a handful of the offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. 27 And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she is defiled and has broken faith with her husband, that the water that brings a curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall waste away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people. 28 And if the woman is not defiled, but is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children. 29 This is the law of jealousy, when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband and defiles herself; 30 Or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he is jealous of his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD and the priest shall carry out all this law upon her. 31 Then the man shall be free from iniquity, and the woman shall bear her iniquity.
  • Deut 22:22-24 : 22 If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away evil from Israel. 23 If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her, 24 Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die; the young woman because she did not cry out, being in the city; and the man because he has humbled his neighbor's wife; so you shall put away the evil from among you.
  • Ruth 2:13 : 13 Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me, and you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.
  • 1 Sam 25:39-42 : 39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil; for the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke with Abigail, to take her to him as a wife. 40 And when the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David sent us to you, to take you to him as a wife. 41 And she arose and bowed herself with her face to the ground, and said, Behold, let your maidservant be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. 42 And Abigail hurried and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five maids accompanying her; so she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 7:1-2
    2 verses
    93%

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

    2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband is dead, she is released from the law of her husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:38-40
    3 verses
    87%

    38 So then he who gives her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better.

    39 A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

    40 But she is happier if she remains as she is, according to my judgment—and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

  • Rom 7:4-7
    4 verses
    84%

    4 Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that you may be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

    5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit to death.

    6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

    7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not. Indeed, I would not have known sin except through the law: for I would not have known lust unless the law had said, 'You shall not covet.'

  • 1 Cor 7:8-16
    9 verses
    79%

    8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

    9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

    10 And to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord, that a wife should not leave her husband:

    11 But if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband should not divorce his wife.

    12 But to the rest I speak, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her.

    13 And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, and he is willing to live with her, let her not leave him.

    14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

    15 But if the unbeliever departs, let them depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us to peace.

    16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

  • Mark 10:11-12
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    78%

    11 And he said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

    12 And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.

  • 1 Cor 7:27-29
    3 verses
    78%

    27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

    28 But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless, such will have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

    29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short; so that from now on, even those who have wives should be as though they had none,

  • Deut 24:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1 When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a certificate of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2 And when she has departed from his house, she may go and be another man's wife.

    3 And if the latter husband dislikes her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;

  • Luke 16:18
    75%

    18 Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.

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    74%

    2 Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • Matt 22:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

    25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

    26 Likewise the second also, and the third, to the seventh.

  • 1 Cor 7:4
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    4 The 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.

  • Num 30:6
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    6 And if she had a husband when she vowed, or uttered anything out of her lips with which she bound her soul,

  • Luke 20:33
    73%

    33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife is she? for all seven had her as wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:33-34
    2 verses
    73%

    33 But he who is married cares about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

    34 There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

  • Matt 19:9
    73%

    9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.

  • 1 Cor 7:36
    73%

    36 But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he will. He does not sin; let them marry.

  • Mark 12:23
    73%

    23 Therefore, in the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For all seven had her as wife.

  • Matt 5:31-32
    2 verses
    73%

    31 Furthermore it has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce:'

    32 But I say to you, that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.

  • Matt 22:28
    72%

    28 Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.

  • Num 30:9
    71%

    9 But every vow of a widow, and of her who is divorced, by which they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

  • Matt 19:7
    71%

    7 They said to him, Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?

  • Num 5:13
    71%

    13 And a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected, though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, nor is she caught in the act;

  • Num 5:20
    71%

    20 But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:

  • Luke 20:29
    71%

    29 There were therefore seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

  • Num 5:29
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    29 This is the law of jealousy, when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband and defiles herself;

  • Rom 6:7
    71%

    7 For he who has died is freed from sin.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
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    16 What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

  • Exod 21:11
    71%

    11 And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free, without paying money.