39 iA wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only jin the Lord.
2 For ea married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.1 3 Accordingly, fshe will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
Released from the Law
1 Or do you not know, brothers1—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?
15 But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you1 jto peace.
2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
3 kYou shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, 4 for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. lThen the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you mquickly.
11 Judah has been tfaithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For uJudah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
The Lord Rebukes the Priests
10 To the married fI give this charge (not I, but the Lord): gthe wife should not separate from her husband
2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
14 And hGod raised the Lord and iwill also raise us up jby his power. 15 Do you not know that kyour bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined1 to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, l“The two will become one flesh.”
