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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The invisible union of the Bride of Christ
65-1125 §58
That is altogether out of the reaches for her. She don't want that. Oh, no, sir. No indeedy. What does she do then? She brings forth a pair of painted-faced, short-wearing, Jezebel-society, illegitimate "cats" they call them, I think it is. I think they call it cats. "Look at that cat going there," they say, or something like that, you know. She was born, or married, or connected, with her first husband, the first Adam, by the adulteress wife, Eve, Adam's first wife. You say, "Adulteress?" She sure was. But, oh, sh...
Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §86
Notice, He can put her away, but she cannot put Him away. He did it, and proved it, in the days when Luther, Wesley, and in Pentecost, when they refused to become the further part of Him by having spiritual sexual affair to become pregnated with further part of the Word. You understand? She refused... The Lutheran church refused for Christ to have any more desire with her. Luther refused it. And let me say this (going to call me something anyhow), so is it today with every one of them! They fail to take that Word!...
Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §85
Notice, he can put away His wife any time He wants to, but she can't put Him away. He can make me---He can throw me in the dust any time He takes a notion to, but oh, brother, I better not try to throw Him there; I'm finished. Solomon could marry any woman that wasn't married. He could marry any woman he wanted to. A priest could marry only a woman that was a virgin. Solomon, like David, he married... What was her name? Abigail, which was... A man called a fool, he had a nice wife, and he died. And Abigail was marr...
Abraham and his Seed after him
61-0423 §77
What? She couldn't have went in labor with a heart a hundred years old. The milk veins was dried up in her body. Her womb was unfertile. Oh, I know it seems strange. I know it does. It seems strange. What if a little baby before it's born, when it's in its mother's womb, could say, "Oh, woe is me! They tell me I'm going to be born in a few days. What'll I do? They tell me in the big world there's sunshine, people, walking around. Oooh! How will I get a living? I'd rather be right here in the womb. Oh, that big spac...
Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §58
She was made to deceive like she did Adam at the beginning---telling him that the fruit was pleasant and so forth to deceive him and take him away from the Word. That's the way the church does today. Same thing. But then, after that, he become her ruler, to rule over her. Now, what a difference in this day and this day of conception. Instead of him being her ruler, she has become his god! Sure. She rules him. Now, you can kind of well understand what I've been hitting at. By her beauty and her sex control, her shap...