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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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Presuming
62-0117 §101
What if my wife ... if I told my wife... If I marry ... I was married, I told my wife that I loved her and that was a lie, and when it really come to the showdown, it's an artificial love, I'm just, I'm... It's not really the truth, see. It's just like you can wear artificial teeth, if you have no teeth. That's all right. You have to have something to chew with, so you get artificial teeth. Them teeth's all right to substitute until you get more. But them teeth is not connected with you. They're not connected there...
The Spoken Word is the original seed
62-0318 §257
All her daughters are harlots. How?---by the same as their mammy---committing just spiritual fornications against the Word. That's how the Catholic church become a whore. That's how her daughters become harlots. Same thing, spiritual fornication against the Word. She and her daughters has a whoring womb. Only death can come from them. God can't bring life through death, and anything that's born dead is not alive. And like Job said, "Can you bring a clean thing out of an unclean ... no not one." Right. Well, how can...
Escape hither, come quickly
58-0202 §52
My little wife, I will go overseas quite often. When I go overseas I don't watch and get her and say, "Mrs. Branham, thou shalt not have no other husbands while I'm gone." And she don't get me by the collar and say, "Young man, no other wives." Wouldn't that be a home? No. We get down and pray. I kiss her goodbye. I say, "Sweetheart, pray for me." She say, "I will be praying every hour, Billy." There we are. I don't worry whether she's going to have any husband. She don't worry whether I'm going to have another wif...
The Spoken Word is the original seed
62-0318 §207
...e second Adam's bride. Now, Adam's bride---Adam's bride could not wait. God had told Adam and Eve: "Multiply and replenish the earth." It was an oncoming thing---a promise. She was not his wife as yet because he had never lived with her. The bride of Christ is not His wife yet; the wedding supper is to take place. Get it? Notice, oh this is rich! She got in a hurry, and what did she do?---she crossed her seed. She mingled it with the serpent's seed; and when she did, she brought a... What did she bring? She brought...
The Marriage of the Lamb
62-0121E §43
If the woman isn't connected with the man in trueness, then it isn't her husband. It's just a man she's taken a vow to live with, and she took a wrong vow. She pledged to love him, and she said she loved him; and she didn't do it. All the time the man is deceived. But there's one thing sure, friends, we're not going to deceive Christ. He knows his own.