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.
Ask a Follow-up Question
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.
Church Order
63-1226 §70
...t, just have to really tell him; see, but in a way of love, I've got a hand out to help him. You see? And they come to me and say, "Brother Branham, you're just a wonderful person, why can't you just compromise a little on that baptism, and on this, that, and the other, that security, and the serpent's seed?" I say, "Brother, I love you, but now let's just take ... let's take the Scripture and see who's right or wrong. See, I've got to be able to..." "Oh, now, Brother Branham, I tell you, you're all wrong." See, go...
Hebrews, Chapter 6, part 3
57-0915M §29
Now notice! If God acted any one time on a certain circumstance, and if that same circumstance arise again, He's got to act the second time like He did the first time or He's unjust, see. No matter how bad you are in sin, how stooped you may become, He's got to act to you like He did that fallen woman, or He acted wrong then. God's behavior is His person, and what He is in His behavior declares His person. And that's the way you are, and your behavior of life tells what you are. As we had and went through, a lesson...
There is a man here that can turn on the light
63-1229M §41
...the doors, and sits back in the darkness, and said, "There is no such a thing as sun; there is no such a thing as light." You'd know right away there was something mentally wrong with that person, see. There's something wrong when he runs back into a dark basement and refuses to accept the benefit of God-given light. There's something wrong with him. He don't want its warm ray. He doesn't want its health-giving substance. He doesn't want its light to walk in; He'd rather sit in darkness. It shows mentally something...
Perseverant
63-0802 §81
While I'm thinking here, I'm waiting to see whether it's really going to take effect on this person or not. Somebody was touched just then. I seen it happen. I've never seen the person in my life, but I looked right at them. I seen it happen. I seen the person get touched by the Holy Spirit. I could have that person stand right up now, and prove that it's the truth (amen) before the line ever starts. She's still praying. She put her handkerchief up to her mouth, sitting right back there. She's got spinal trouble. T...
Our hope is in God
51-0929 §47
...oice; it's my voice, but not me using it. I go into another place and see what's materializing in front of me. The people move away. I at this time cannot tell you what was wrong with the person I just prayed for. I just seen a vision, and I just have to speak it as it comes to me. And then the person witnesses after it leaves me that it's right or wrong. All right, bring the patient. And everybody real reverent. How do you do, sir? Perceive, of course, by your dress that you're a minister. Would you come just a li...