Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

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So then

Exodus 20:14
"Thou shalt not break wedlock.
Leviticus 20:10
He that breaketh wedlock with another man's wife shall die for it, because he hath broke wedlock with his neighbour's wife, and so shall she likewise.
Numbers 5:13
so that another man lie with her, fleshly; and the thing be hid from the eyes of her husband and is not come to light that she is defiled - for there is no witness against her, inasmuch as she was not taken with the manner -
Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man be found lying with a woman that hath a wedded husband, they shall die: both the man that lie with the wife, and also the wife. So shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
Matthew 5:32
But I say unto you, Whosoever put away his wife, except it be for fornication, causeth her to break matrimony. And whosoever marryeth her that is divorced breaketh wedlock.
Mark 10:6
But at the first creation, God made them man and woman, saying,
John 8:3
And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery, and set her in the midst and said unto him,

Though

Ruth 2:13
Then she said unto him, "Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord, for thou hast comforted me and hast spoken heartily unto thy maid, which yet cannot be like unto one of thy maids."
1 Samuel 25:39
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the LORD that hath judged the cause of my rebuke of the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, and hath turned the wickedness of Nabal again upon his own head." And David sent to commune with Abigail, to the intent to take her to his wife.
1 Timothy 5:11
The younger widows refuse. For when they have begun to wax wanton, to the dishonour of Christ, then will they marry,

General references

Exodus 20:14
"Thou shalt not break wedlock.
Mark 10:9
Therefore, what God hath coupled, let not man separate."