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 Spoken Word is the original seed
62-0318 §260
That's how adultery is committed spiritually. When you, knowing better by the Word of God, by the intercourse of the mind, take in a lie of the devil against the Word of God. That's exactly what Eve done. With a spiritual intercourse first that come by believing Satan's lie into the womb of her mind, that polluted her soul, set death in the soul; then the natural act taken place. And that's the only way that a woman ever can commit adultery against her husband, is to first let some man talk her into it and then rec...
Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §69
...iginal creation, but by sex desire. Now, that takes care of the beginning, doesn't it? In the beginning there was only one man and one woman, one male, one female. But when she crossed that line and brought this sin, now the world's to be repopulated again by sex; not by creation, by sex. See where the woman's at now? Now, but that's the way the world's populated today---through women. That's the reason Jesus had to come through the woman: to bring it back to its original beginning again, without sex desire. He's v...
The Inter-veil
56-0121 §60
Notice, you put a new spirit. God has to give you a new spirit, or you couldn't even get along with Him. You can't get along with yourself, that old devil-spirit you had in you. So He's got to put a new spirit in you so you can get along with His Spirit. Amen. "I will put a new spirit in them. And I will put My Spirit in them," He said, after He has give you a new spirit; that's you. Don't get it confused with God's Spirit, it's not. It's your new spirit, so you can get along with the Holy Spirit if He ever gives i...
Jairus And Divine Healing
54-0216 §35
And we ought to get ourself in that kind of an atmosphere. Create... Each one of you is a creator. Did you know that? Each one of you people that's born again is a creator. We must create an atmosphere, as I said the other night. Sometimes when I'm in the home, and the wife is all ... the people in and out, and just going all the time. I'd go in, and wife standing in there wiping her eyes, crying; she said, "Bill, the children hasn't even had a bite to eat today; the house is packed and jammed." There little Sarah,...
Possessing the gate of the enemy after trial
64-0322 §8
Now, there was two seed of Abraham. One of them was natural seed; the other one was the spiritual seed. One of them was natural by his flesh; the other was the seed of his faith---the faith that we also might be Abraham's seed by the promised Word. And now, after he had been tried for twenty-five long years... And instead of growing weaker, he grew stronger. See, if it didn't happen the first year, the next year it would be a greater miracle---because it was two years old. And he piled those years up as he got olde...