My Wife Deceived My Before Our Marriage. She Has No Womb and Cannot Get Pregnant. Can I Remarry?
1) Direct Answer
No. Childlessness or being deceived about fertility does not free you to remarry while your wife is living. Your covenant stands. If you cannot dwell together in peace, you may separate, but you must remain unmarried or be reconciled.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Jesus said, “What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder… whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery” (Matthew 19:6,9). Infertility is not fornication.
- “The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth” (1 Corinthians 7:39; see also Romans 7:2-3; 1 Corinthians 7:10-11). If separated, remain unmarried or be reconciled.
- God hates putting away (Malachi 2:14-16). He calls marriage “the wife of thy covenant.”
- Deception does not dissolve a marriage covenant by itself. Jacob was deceived with Leah, yet kept her as his wife (Genesis 29:23-28).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Children are a blessing, but they are not the basis of the marriage covenant; vows are “for better, for worse,” not “until children come.”
- Deception is sin and must be confessed, but Scripture only grants the exception of “fornication” for putting away. Medical infertility is not fornication.
- Taking another wife would be adultery, not a solution. The church does not authorize adding a wife; that is not the order of the New Testament.
- If an unbelieving spouse departs, the believer is “not under bondage” to chase them (1 Corinthians 7:15), but that is not your case, and even then, does not license remarriage while the unbelieving spouse lives.
4) Reinforcing Counsel
Now notice, the path of a Christian is forgiveness, honesty, and faith. Have her confess the deception; forgive from the heart; seek the Lord together. Pray—God is able to open and close the womb, and nothing is too hard for Him. If He leads otherwise, consider adoption. Walk clean, keep your vows, and let the Holy Spirit fill the home with love instead of bitterness. Where in the Bible does it say childlessness frees a man to remarry? Nowhere. But it does say, “Let not man put asunder.”
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Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §36
Now, it was then man was made to rule over the woman by God's Word. She was no more co-equal with him. She was co-equal in nature, you know. But when she broke God's Word, God made a man to be a ruler over her. Genesis 3:16, if you want to put it down. She was no more equal with the man. She was a breaker of God's Word. Don't you see "she"---"she," the church down here, the breaker of God's Word? That throwed her completely out of continuity, and that's what the church has done; it's throwed spiritual death upon th...
Ye must be born again
58-0619B §34
...ame up. He looked wonderful, but he was lonesome; he had no helpmate. So to see that... I want this to be real sticky now. God never put the woman in the original creation. She's a byproduct of the man. Man and woman was one. A woman, in the beginning, He took the woman from Adam. And man and wife are really one, but that was done to reproduce themselves again, to put them in flesh. But He took the feminish part of the man and made a woman out of it.
Ye must be born again
58-0619B §38
Now, but Eve was beautiful, she was real pretty. Adam was just an ordinary man, strong, big muscles, shaggy hair around his neck. Let's say Eve was... They were both naked; they knowed no sin. And the first day they were sitting there, and Adam looked at her and he said, "Why, she's flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone." Why? She was taken from him; she was part of him. Not in the original creation (It was over.), but He took from, to show that they're one. And what about marriage and divorce today? Amongst Pentec...
Perseverant
64-0619 §32
And women then wasn't like they are now: get out here with shorts on a couple days before deliverance, out on the streets before men. That's a disgrace to humanity. That's right. She hid herself. And little Mary come up before she was to be a mother, and went up in the hills of Judea to see Elisabeth. And while Elisabeth had hid herself, no doubt one morning looking through the curtains, she saw this young lady come running and she recognized it to be her cousin, Mary. And as women then... They loved to see one ano...
Go wake Jesus
63-1103 §82
and she laughed up her sleeve, said, "Me, an old woman a hundred years old, and my lord also old and we'd have pleasure again?" See, as husband and wife had ceased years and years before. "Me, have pleasure with my husband again--us have pleasure together?" And she laughed. And the angel with his ... the man, with his back to the tent, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" And she said, she ran out and confessed, "I didn't say..." "But you did," see. Now, God would have took her life right there. But he couldn't hurt her, f...