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 §241
When Adam come to his wife she was pregnant. She had done something. She was mixed. She was ... hybrid the child, and it died. But when Joseph come to his bride, she was pregnated, but with life. Adam's wife, or Adam's bride, when Adam---before they came together---just like Joseph and Mary, just like Christ and the church now (don't you see it? see)--- and before they came together (Adam and Eve), she was pregnated with the corrupt seed from the serpent; and when Adam come to his wife he found her pregnated to dea...
The Spoken Word is the original seed
62-0318 §142
Then Sarah, in herself ... watch that pollution, see. Now, actually to disbelieve that, God would have killed her right there. Did you know that? And she come out and denied Abraham. She laughed up her sleeve, in other words, to herself. Now she never maybe even cracked a smile but down in her heart she kind of laughed a little bit. "Me, an old woman, a hundred years old, fifty years since the menopause, time of life, live with him all them years. Why, we haven't lived as husband and wife for twenty-five years, may...
Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §76
...ote, let's read this here. I want to get this to you. Matthew 5, Jesus spoke here of something that's really of a vital importance. We want to see it. Matthew 5. I wrote on my ... I marked out some of the things I was going to say just to the men, so had quite a little time saying it just before our sisters. But I want to go out here now before... Now, sister, I want to put you into the place where God's Word promised you. And you see then, you stay in that place too. Matthew 5:32. I want you to notice here, to sup...
Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §75
Now, let us, in view of these vindicated truths of God, search a little further, if you want to. All right. Now, this may hurt just a little bit till we get down to the bottom of it. I'm just going to show you the truth of it. There is no minister that can marry a widow. Did you know that? You want to read that? All right, you get in Leviticus 21:7 and Ezekiel 44:22 and it will show you that the priesthood was not to marry a woman that's been touched by man. This type is of the virgin bride of Jesus Christ, because...
Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §67
...ject, to show why and what about divorces and so forth. Now, in Genesis the third chapter, and we will begin now with the third and the sixteenth verse. Let's begin at the fourteenth verse: And the LORD ... said unto the serpent [Now, He's going to curse it.], Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all the cattle, ... above every beast of the field; and upon thy belly ... thou shall go, and dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy se...