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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Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §99
...for the rest of his days! He's here. Is that right? And still in that act that he done, is still the same sin works around a woman, like a male sex like that. There's where she has her wall-eyed conditions and things when she has her sensations, far beyond what any man could ever do. I'll stop there because we're in a mixed crowd. I'll get the men, We'll talk more about it. Got all the papers and things laying right here, right at my hand right now, and I was going to bring to you this morning. I was going to take...
Power of transformation
65-1031M §31
Like in the scripture we find out where it said, "Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary, thy wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost," see. Now, it was his wife when he made the promise to marry her, or to have her; but yet it wasn't his wife yet because he had never knew her as a wife. So that's the way it was here. The reason I said God's son and his bride, Adam had never knew his wife as a wife; but yet it was his wife potentially. Just like the church now and Christ.
Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §79
But now that the seals are opened, the Spirit of truth directs us to the Word. That explains why all the mistakes has been down through the ages, because the seals was not open. This was not revealed. It's true. Notice, you can't make the shadows fail (as I preached to you last night about the shadow across the floor); it's got to come out right! How could there be a shadow of an elephant coming across the floor and a little, bitty, spindly man come out to be the elephant, or the elephant, to a little, spindly man?...
Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §87
...o bring forth a child of this age, the seed child. Amen. I hope you understand. Couldn't be pregnated, no. So what did He do? Put her away in divorcement. That's right. But she dares put Him away. He put her away. He went right on revealing His Word to the body and vindicating and saying by Himself. His children begin to kind of look more like Him because it's fully maturing, or they become children of the Word---not children of the church, children of the Word. And the bride will be a lovely little lady of the Wor...
Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §25
Now, listen and see if this sounds sensible to you. For instance, if I get ready to go overseas, and I take my own family, I'll call my wife up to me, and I will say, "We're ... I'm going overseas, Dear." (Now, here is the legalist's side.) " Now, my wife, I'm going to lay the law down to you. If you flirt with any man while I'm gone, when I come back, you're a divorced woman. And I don't want you making eyes, don't want you flirting! You understand that? I'm your husband. If you do it, I'm going to put you away wh...