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
But the married I charge, not I, but the Lord, Let not a wife separate from her husband,
Romans 7:2
For a woman under a husband is bound by law to a living husband; but if the husband has died she is released from the law of the husband.

Only

2 Corinthians 6:14
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what participation has righteousness with wickedness? or what communion has light with darkness?

General references

Matthew 19:10
The disciples said to him, If the case of a man is thus with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.