² By no means! We are those who have died to sin;^(A) how can we live in it any longer?

² For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.^(A)

³ So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress.^(A) But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

¹⁹ “For through the law I died to the law^(A) so that I might live for God.^(B)