So if she takes 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 she is no adulteress when she takes another man.
In context
1Do you not know, brothers and sisters—I am speaking to people who know the law—that the law rules over a person only as long as that person lives? 2A married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives; if he dies, she is released from the law that bound her to him. 3So if she takes 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 she is no adulteress when she takes another man. 4In the same way, my brothers and sisters, you were put to death to the law through the body of the Christ, so that you might belong to another—to him who was raised from the dead—and so bear fruit for God. 5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin, aroused by the law, were at work in every part of us, bearing fruit for death.
