³ So then, if while her husband is alive she ^[a]gives herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if she ^[b]gives herself to another man.

^39 (A)A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband ^[a]dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only ^(B)in the Lord.