⁹ what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

¹ Are ye ignorant, brethren -- for to those knowing law I speak -- that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

² for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

³ so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.