For the married woman is bound by law to [her] husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the husband.

The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You have said rightly, 'I do not have a husband,'

Therefore as a result, if she belongs to another man [while] her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress [if she] belongs to another man.

The husband must fulfill his obligation to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband [does]. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but his wife [does].

But if indeed she does separate, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce [his] wife.

And if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he consents to live with her, she must not divorce her husband.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

A wife is bound for as long a time [as] her husband lives. But if her husband {dies}, she is free to marry whomever she wishes, only in the Lord.

for you have had five husbands, and [the one] whom you have now is not your husband; this you have said truthfully!"

and Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary by whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

So Joseph her husband, being righteous and not wanting to disgrace her, intended to divorce her secretly.

And if she divorces her husband [and] marries another, she commits adultery."

And there was a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Asher (she was advanced {in years}, having lived with [her] husband seven years {after her marriage},

"Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from [her] husband commits adultery.

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a husband, but of God.

He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here."

So Peter [said] to her, "How [is it] that it was agreed by you [two] to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who buried your husband [are] at the door, and they will carry you out!"

And immediately she fell down at his feet and died. So [when] the young men came in, they found her dead, and carried [her] out [and] buried [her] with her husband.

But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.

To the married I command--not I, but the Lord--a wife must not separate from [her] husband.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother, since otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

and he is divided. And the unmarried woman or the virgin cares for the things of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

For I am jealous [for] you with a godly jealousy, because I promised you [in marriage] to one husband, to present [you] [as] a pure virgin to Christ.

For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren woman, who does not give birth to [children]; burst out and shout, [you] who do not have birth pains, because many [are] the children of the desolate [woman], even more than [those of] the one who has a husband."

because [the] husband is [the] head of the wife, as also Christ [is the] head of the church (he himself [being the] Savior of the body).

Only you also, each one [of you], must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife {must respect} her husband.

Therefore the overseer must be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, skillful in teaching,

Let a widow be put on the list [if she] is not less than sixty years [old], the wife of one husband,

If anyone is blameless, [the] husband of one wife, having faithful children, not {accused of dissipation} or rebellious.

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.