Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
The woman
General references
Bible References
The woman
Genesis 2:23
The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones,
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Becauseshe was taken out of Man.”
“
And flesh of my flesh;
Because
Numbers 30:7
and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day he hears it, then her vows shall stand and her obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand.
1 Corinthians 7:4
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
General references
Exodus 20:14
“You shall not commit adultery.
Numbers 30:9
“But the vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, everything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.
Mark 10:9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”