Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
General references
Bible References
Wife
1 Corinthians 7:10
And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.
Romans 7:2
For the woman under authority to the living husband has been bound by law, but if the husband should die, she has been released from the law of the husband.
Only
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. And they took to them wives of all that they chose.
Deuteronomy 7:3
Neither shall thou make marriages with them. Thy daughter thou shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall thou take to thy son.
Malachi 2:11
Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holiness of LORD which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?
General references
Matthew 19:10
His disciples say to him, If the case of the man with his wife is this way, it is not advantageous to marry.