1. Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?
2. For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:
3. so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.
4. So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.