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.^(B) But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

⁴ So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law^(C) through the body of Christ,^(D) that you might belong to another,^(E) to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.