◄ 1 Corinthians 7:39 ►
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.
Cross References
Romans 7:2
For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

1 Corinthians 7:38
So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.

2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?


Treasury of Scripture
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

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1 Corinthians 7:10,15
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: …



Romans 7:2,3
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…

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Genesis 6:2
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.



Deuteronomy 7:3,4
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son…



Malachi 2:11
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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