Romans 7:2-3

These verses illustrate the truth of the principle stated in Romans 7:1. The law binds a wife to her husband. Paul’s example was especially true in Jewish life where the Mosaic Law did not permit a woman to divorce her husband. In the illustration the wife represents the believer and the husband the Law.

"As a woman whose husband has died is free to marry another, so also are believers, since they have died to the law, free to belong to Christ." [Note: Mounce, p. 160.]