Shortly after posting my previous post on divorce and remarriage, someone emailed me a question about widows and remarriage. I thought her question was one that many others might be asking, so here's what I told her.
Widows are released from the law of marriage. Paul says this at the beginning of Romans 7: "Do you not know, brothers - for I am speaking to men who know the law - that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? 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 of marriage. So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man." (v. 1-3 NIV)
I have no problem whatsoever remarrying those who have lost a spouse to death. A new relationship can be a comfort to the widow.
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