3So 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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Thou shalt not commit adultery.
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. …
And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Among other arguments used in the foregoing chapter to persuade us against sin, and to holiness, this was one (Rom. 6:14), that we are not under the law ; and this argument is here further insisted upon and explained (Rom. 7:6): We are delivered from the law . What is meant by this? And how is it an argument why sin should not reign over us, and why we should walk in newness of life? 1. We are del…
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