My Husband Deceived Me by Hiding His Impotency Before We Got Married. Can I Leave the Marriage and Remarry?
1) Direct answer
No. Deception is sin and must be repented of, but it does not give you a right to remarry while your husband lives. You may seek separation if conscience or circumstances require it, but Scripture binds you to remain unmarried or be reconciled.
2) Scriptural explanation
- The Bible says a wife is bound to her husband “so long as he liveth” (Romans 7:2-3; 1 Corinthians 7:39). That is the plain rule.
- If separation happens, the Lord’s command is, “let not the wife depart from her husband: but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband” (1 Corinthians 7:10-11).
- Jesus allowed one scriptural ground that dissolves the union for remarriage: “except it be for fornication” (Matthew 19:9; 5:32). Now notice, that word points to sexual uncleanness—premarital immorality like Joseph considered when he thought to put Mary away privately (Matthew 1:18-19; compare Deuteronomy 22:13-21). Impotency is not fornication.
- God hates “putting away” (Malachi 2:16). He calls marriage a covenant to which He is a witness (Malachi 2:14).
- Conjugal duty is commanded (1 Corinthians 7:3-5). If a spouse fails through weakness or sickness, that calls for prayer, help, and healing—not a new marriage. “Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church… and the prayer of faith shall save the sick” (James 5:14-15).
3) Simple clarifying logic
- Deceit is wrong. Your husband must repent and walk in truth (Ephesians 4:25; Colossians 3:9). But the vow you made is still a vow. The Bible gives no verse that says fraud about health or ability dissolves a marriage so that one is free to remarry.
- The only release for remarriage while a spouse lives is fornication. Impotency is a condition, not fornication. Therefore, the covenant stands.
- If someone says, “Fraud annuls the marriage,” ask them to show the Scripture. The Bible does not grant remarriage for this cause.
- If living together becomes untenable, Scripture allows separation, but not a second marriage: remain unmarried or be reconciled.
4) Short reinforcing statement
Seek God for mercy and healing. Bring it into the light—confession, prayer, medical help, and pastoral oversight. God can restore what is broken. But do not step outside the Word: no remarriage while he lives, unless the biblical ground of fornication is present. Stay with the Word, and the God of peace will guide your steps.
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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The Queen of Sheba
60-0110 §26
And Jesus said that "... a greater than Jonah is here." He said those people who didn't know which was right and left hand will rise in the judgment and condemn this generation, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. Nothing like that was ever said in the Scriptures that He would do that, but He did it. But here was Jesus, from Genesis was predicted to come, being the Messiah, and He would be a God-prophet; and they failed to recognize Him. Said, "They'll rise in the day of the judgment and condemn this g...
The invisible union of the Bride of Christ
65-1125 §19
Paul, here, is giving an illustration in our Scriptures about the law and grace, and illustrating it like marriage and divorce. This passage is very seldom preached on because it more or less pertains to---like marriage and divorce. But it also pertains to a greater portion of marriage and divorce, of how that he is trying to set in order here, that we, as a Church, can no more be married to the world and to Christ at the same time, and be legal and lawful about it, than it can be for a woman to be living with a hu...
Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §52
...did He permit her to be designed thus?" (I don't want to take too much time, because I've got a lot more to say here.) Why? The question might arise then, why did God make this woman like this? Why did He permit her to be like that? It was for His own good pleasure. Sure. Now, if you want to turn in your Bible just a minute, let's turn to Romans 9 just a minute and show you something, how God does these things, if you want to read it. And we can see here what God does for His own good pleasure. Romans 9:14: Then wh...
Be not afraid
63-0607 §52
"So we listened to Him, and the conversation went on. And finally He said to her, 'Go, get your husband, and come here.' And she said, 'I don't have any husband.' " And Andrew said, "You remember how we all looked at one another? My, one time He was wrong. There's a slip-up somewhere, because here He tells her, 'Go get your husband,' and she says back, 'I don't have any husband.' And He tells her, 'You've told the truth.' And then we all were surprised. What were we going to say now? Now He's told the woman she has...
Hear ye Him
57-0125 §36
When I get ready to leave (she is the mother of my three children.), we just kneel down in the room, and we put our arms around each other; and I say to her, "Sweetheart, I am so happy to have a wife like you." And she said, "I am so happy to be married to the servant of the Lord." I said, "I know you'll be lonesome, honey, while I'm gone, but I'll be praying for you." She said, "I'll be praying for you, honey, that God will use you to win souls to Him [unclear words]. Then we offer our prayer to God, to bless us a...