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.
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.
Presuming
62-0610M §91
They said, "You say ... you're not a man over fifty years old, and say you've seen Abraham? Now we know that you are a ... got a devil." He said, "Before Abraham was I AM." "Now we know you got a devil." See, they're blind. He said, "You blind Pharisees, blind leading the blind." That's it. Now we see Him sitting there. That little woman said, to Him she said, "Well, you want to... You Jews, you want to argue religion." That was the custom of the day, like today. "You Jews say that over here, and down here, and all...
Questions and Answers, part 2
54-0103E §52
...ast days are here. You go to a dance hall, you've got to get in the spirit of dancing, or they won't dance. You go to the church, you've got to get in the Spirit of worship before you can worship. The world's got to get in the spirit of the last days before the last days can come, and we're in the spirit of the last days. And God promised that these things would be here, and that's what we've got. We're in the last days. And men and women are sitting asleep and don't realize it. And the morals... I met a young boy...
Life of demons and visions
51-0721 §10
...and if to satisfy the girl. So I think they must've got permission from the preacher, just to let me come down there. So I went in to see her. And the poor little thing had my little book laying there. And on the back of the bed, before she could... Got passed, putting her hands back, the paint was all rubbed off the bed where she had held, and cried, and prayed for deliverance. But her church didn't believe in divine healing. And she got this book, and she seen in the paper where another girl had been healed, had...
The Marriage of the Lamb
62-0121E §65
Church has done the same, committing spiritual fornication as the woman that would share her love, from her husband to another man. That woman's not fit to be lived with. You know that. And when the church begins to share her fellowship with the world... God's a jealous God. He put Israel away because of that, and his Son will put the same thing away. He's going to have a bride that hasn't got a wrinkle in her. Amen. Wholly washed by the blood of his own self. That's right. So we see where we stand, the wedding get...
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.