But It Does Not Seem Fair, I Am the One Abandoned Here?
1) Direct Answer
I know it feels unfair, but the Word doesn’t change because someone wronged you. Even if you were abandoned, you are called to peace—not to chase—and to remain unmarried or be reconciled while your spouse lives. God will not abandon you.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The Bible says, “If the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace” (1 Corinthians 7:15). Peace to let them go—not permission to remarry.
- It already said, “Let not the wife depart… but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband” (1 Corinthians 7:10-11).
- “The woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth” (Romans 7:2-3; see also 1 Corinthians 7:39).
- When treated unjustly, Jesus “suffered… committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously” (1 Peter 2:21-23). He is our pattern.
- The Lord says, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews 13:5), and He is “nigh unto them that are of a broken heart” (Psalm 34:18).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Ask yourself: Does God change His covenant because someone else broke theirs? If man’s sin could dissolve God’s rule, then Jesus’ words about adultery would be set aside by abandonment. The Bible won’t contradict itself.
- “Not under bondage” means you are free from the obligation to force the union; it does not mean free to enter another. Allowing remarriage here would make man’s leaving do what God said man cannot do—put asunder what God joined.
- Obedience may feel like a cross, but grace meets you on that road. Adding another union while your spouse lives would only turn your pain into adultery. Staying with the Word keeps your conscience clean and your testimony bright.
4) Short Reinforcing Statement
You see, God sees the unfairness and will judge righteously. If there is danger or abuse, separate for safety and peace, but keep yourself pure—unmarried or reconciled. Lean on the Lord, lean on the church for support, and let God be your keeper. He will not fail you.
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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Prodigal
50-0827A §35
I can see him get with the big crowds down there. And as long as his money lasted, he was a good fellow. That's the way the world treats you. As long as you got money, you got friends. But when your money's gone, your friends are gone. That's dry weather friends. I know a Friend Who will stick by you if you haven't got a penny: Jesus Christ the Son of God. I've been to a place where I had not a cent. He loved me. He loved me just as much as I wouldn't have a penny as if I had a million dollars. He loves me just the...
Faith is the substance
47-0412 §5
...ap in the audio]... reasonable idea, because I want you to be healed. That's what I'm here for. I... This is a great sacrifice for me to be here, friends. I have a home, a family. And I'm new; I'm just a--a baby in the work. This is just a few months since the gift of healing came to me. I don't have--I don't... own my home. I just live in two rooms in a little "L" cottage. My wife packs water for somewhat, almost a half a city block, packs it back out of the house again. I've been offered wonderful homes in differ...
Forsaking all
62-0123 §42
Now, let's take just a few characters that did forsake all. Let's take first the father of faith, Abraham. Abraham forsook his own land, the property he owned and everything else. He was called out of Chaldea, the city of Ur. And he forsook his land, his home, his people, and all, and followed God. He had to forsake everything, leave it behind. He forsook his land, his property down in Chaldea, in Ur. He forsaken his property, and God gave him the whole promised land. God pays back with a lot of interest. He gave h...
Questions and Answers on the Holy Ghost
59-1219 §20
Now, turn, you in your King James or whatever translation you're reading from... And I want to read it. And listen real close now. Do not misunderstand. Many today, even my sister, many of them called, said... Mrs. Morgan... Many of them was in last evening. Mrs. Morgan is one of our sisters that was given up; and she was on the dead list in Louisville for sixteen, seventeen years ago with cancer. I think she's sitting back here again tonight. She could not hear, she said, because I was speaking directly into the m...
One of the meanest men in town
61-0429B §46
"And, Simon, when I entered the door you wasn't standing there to kiss me welcome. You wasn't standing there, Simon. You were too interested in the new building program and things you got going on. You were too interested in getting more members in your association. You wasn't there to kiss me. You was ashamed of me before this company. You wasn't there to make me welcome, to kiss me into your heart, to make me welcome. "But ever since this woman has come in [He knowed who she was. Now, what about the prophet?], sh...