² For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

³⁹ It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living; but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another; but only to a Christian.

²³ And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

²⁴ For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

⁷ And if she is married to a husband at the time when she is under an oath or an undertaking given without thought;

⁸ If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at the time, then the oaths she made and the undertakings she gave will have force.

⁴ The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.