For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband die, she is discharged from the law of her husband.

The woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou hast said right, I have no husband:

Therefore while her husband is living, she shall be called an adulteress if she become another man's: but if her husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man's.

Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence; and in like manner also the wife to the husband.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband; and in like manner also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

(but if she separate, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and that the husband put not away his wife.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband: else were your children unclean; but they are holy.

But God hath called us to peace; for how knowest thou, O wife, but thou shalt save thy husband; or how knowest thou, O husband, but thou shalt save thy wife?

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:

for thou hast had five husbands; and he, whom thou now hast, is not thy husband: this thou hast said true.

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser; who was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her first marrying,

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery; and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

Jesus saith unto her, Go call thine husband, and come hither.

Then Peter said unto her, Wherefore have ye agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold the feet of those, who have been burying thy husband, now at the door, and they shall carry thee out.

And immediately she fell down at his feet and expired: and the young men coming in found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

Nevertheless to prevent whoredoms, let every one have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

But those that are married, not I command, but the Lord, that the wife be not separated from her husband;

And if any wife hath an unbelieving husband, and he like to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin: she, that is unmarried, careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she, that is married, is in care about the things of the world, and how she may please her husband.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, having espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

For it is written, Rejoice thou barren, that for a while didst not bear, break forth and cry aloud for joy, thou that didst not travail with child; for many more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath an husband."

for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and the saviour of that body.

Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and let the wife reverence her husband.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, sober, prudent, grave,

to wit, if any one be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of debauchery, or unruly.