For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband.

But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.

Yes, they were glad to do so; and indeed it is a duty which they owe to them. For the Gentile converts who have shared their spiritual blessings are in duty bound to minister to them in the things of this world.