Romeinen 7:3

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling

Indien zij nu eens anderen mans wordt, terwijl de man leeft, wordt zij ene overspeelster genoemd; maar indien de man sterft, is zij vrij van de wet, en is geen overspeelster, als zij eens anderen mans wordt.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Dus heet zij, wanneer zij bij het leven van haar man aan een ander gaat toebehoren, een echtbreekster; maar is haar man gestorven, dan is zij van de wet vrij, zodat zij geen echtbreekster is wanneer zij aan een anderen man gaat toebehoren.

Staten Vertaling
Daarom dan, indien zij eens anderen mans wordt, terwijl de man leeft, zo zal zij een overspeelster genaamd worden; maar indien de man gestorven is, zo is zij vrij van de wet, alzo dat zij geen overspeelster is, als zij eens anderen mans wordt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

So then: Exodus 20:14, Leviticus 20:10, Numbers 5:13-31, Deuteronomy 22:22-24, Matthew 5:32, Mark 10:6-12, John 8:3-5

though: Ruth 2:13, 1 Samuel 25:39-42, 1 Timothy 5:11-14

Reciprocal: Matthew 19:9 - doth Mark 10:11 - Whosoever John 4:18 - is not 1 Corinthians 7:39 - wife Galatians 5:1 - the liberty

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So then if while her husband liveth,.... True indeed it is, that whilst her husband is alive, if

she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; she will be noted and accounted of as such everybody, except in the above mentioned cases:

but if her husband be dead; then there can be no exception to her marriage:

she is free from the law; of marriage, by which she was before bound:

so that she is no adulteress; nor will any reckon her such; she is clear from any such imputation:

though she be married to another man; hence it appears that second marriages are lawful.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So then if ... - compare Matthew 5:32.

She shall be called - She will be. The word used here χρηματίσει chrēmatisei is often used to denote being called by an oracle or by divine revelation. But it is here employed in the simple sense of being commonly called, or of being so regarded.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 7:3. So then, if, while her husband liveth — The object of the apostle's similitude is to show that each party is equally bound to the other; but that the death of either dissolves the engagement.

So - she is no adulteress, though she be married to another — And do not imagine that this change would argue any disloyalty in you to your Maker; for, as he has determined that this law of ordinances shall cease, you are no more bound to it than a woman is to a deceased husband, and are as free to receive the Gospel of Christ as a woman in such circumstances would be to remarry.