What If I Marry the Wrong Person?
1) Direct Answer
If you are not yet married and you know it is wrong, stop and wait on God. If you are already married, keep your covenant. Regret is not a Bible reason to break a marriage. God can redeem a hard union when you walk in His order. Only clear scriptural grounds release a believer.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Before marriage: “Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers” (2 Corinthians 6:14). “In the Lord” is the rule (1 Corinthians 7:39).
- After marriage: “What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder” (Matthew 19:6). God hates putting away (Malachi 2:14–16).
- The Lord’s command: “Let not the wife depart… but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled… and let not the husband put away his wife” (1 Corinthians 7:10–11).
- Exception Jesus gave: “Except it be for fornication” (sexual immorality) (Matthew 5:32; 19:9).
- Unequally yoked after the fact: If the unbelieving spouse is pleased to dwell, do not leave; if the unbeliever departs, “a brother or sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace” (1 Corinthians 7:12–15).
- The binding nature of marriage: while the spouse lives, the covenant stands (Romans 7:2–3).
- The way forward inside the covenant: wives win husbands by a chaste life (1 Peter 3:1–2); husbands love as Christ loved the church (Ephesians 5:25).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- The Bible never says, “If you married the wrong person, you may leave.” It says, “Let not man put asunder.” So “wrong” feelings don’t undo a vow God witnessed.
- If an unbelieving spouse refuses to live in peace and departs, the believer is “not under bondage.” This however is not a license to remarry. But if they will dwell in peace, stay and be a light.
- If safety is at stake, separation can be used for protection (1 Corinthians 7:11) while seeking God’s order. Holiness never requires you to remain in harm’s way, but it also does not make regret a license for divorce.
- God can turn “wrong” into “holy” when you submit the home to His Word—repent, forgive, pray, and live the covenant. He honors His order.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice, the way out of a troubled marriage is rarely out—it’s up. Bring the home under the Word, seek peace, and let the Lord make bitter waters sweet. Where Scripture gives no release, faithfulness is the path—and God meets those who honor their vows.
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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.
How the Angel came to me
53-1109 §53
.... I believe in praising the Lord, and shouting the praises of God. But now, when we're standing like this, I tell you what it does. When you move, you see, or the reason... If there's a bank of faith around, and you will feel demons will pull one from another, you see. If there's something wrong with a certain person, like a certain person in the building, there's something wrong with them. Well then, when there's something wrong with a patient here, that's sympathetic ... sympathizing demon, they will pull back an...
Questions and Answers, The Law having a shadow
54-0516 §32
Now, I answered that to an extent, last night. Now, I will finish it this morning. Now, speaking in tongues is a gift of God. But it's subject to what's on the floor at the first place. Now, there, Christian, there's where you make your mistake. Now, I don't know; someone told me that Monday night, or Tuesday night, when I was preaching, that somebody spoke in tongues, while I was preaching. It's a good thing I didn't hear it, or I'd have stopped and called you out right there; 'cause you was out of order. The Holy...
Turn on the Light
64-0125 §14
Jesus had been prophesied for four thousand years that He would come Messiah. And when He come, He manifested every promise of Messiah. But yet, the people of the world, the churches and so forth, knowed nothing about Him, because they had done ... got in some other thing that kept them away from knowing this. Now, what if a man just... We'll take the natural part. What if a man that's born here to walk in the light of that sun (what God's created for him), and the first thing you know he shuts his eyes, runs into...
Jubilee Year
54-1003E §63
If you have enmity against some neighbor, against somebody else that's done you harm, and that person has done you harm; if you, in your heart, can't love that person, don't take that experience. You must love those who do not love you. If you love those who love you, sinners do the same. But you've got now, not to just act like it's a religious act, but from your heart you have to. Why, I asked you to pray for me, the other day ... or, this morning, for me. I got so I criticized people, the way women dresses, and...
Perfect strength by perfect weakness
61-1119 §81
A few days ago one of the sweetest friends that I got, a fine person, said to me, leaving the room after I'd been on an interview, left the room, said, "Brother Branham..." And this person has been one of my financial supports in the meeting out there. Come to a place where I didn't know how I was going to make the thing go, just trusting God, this person would write it off. Yes, just a fine person. And this person took a trip and come from a great city, here a few nights ago, and stood in the room, and said to me...