What If I Marry the Wrong Person?
1) Direct Answer
If you are not yet married and you know it is wrong, stop and wait on God. If you are already married, keep your covenant. Regret is not a Bible reason to break a marriage. God can redeem a hard union when you walk in His order. Only clear scriptural grounds release a believer.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Before marriage: “Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers” (2 Corinthians 6:14). “In the Lord” is the rule (1 Corinthians 7:39).
- After marriage: “What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder” (Matthew 19:6). God hates putting away (Malachi 2:14–16).
- The Lord’s command: “Let not the wife depart… but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled… and let not the husband put away his wife” (1 Corinthians 7:10–11).
- Exception Jesus gave: “Except it be for fornication” (sexual immorality) (Matthew 5:32; 19:9).
- Unequally yoked after the fact: If the unbelieving spouse is pleased to dwell, do not leave; if the unbeliever departs, “a brother or sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace” (1 Corinthians 7:12–15).
- The binding nature of marriage: while the spouse lives, the covenant stands (Romans 7:2–3).
- The way forward inside the covenant: wives win husbands by a chaste life (1 Peter 3:1–2); husbands love as Christ loved the church (Ephesians 5:25).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- The Bible never says, “If you married the wrong person, you may leave.” It says, “Let not man put asunder.” So “wrong” feelings don’t undo a vow God witnessed.
- If an unbelieving spouse refuses to live in peace and departs, the believer is “not under bondage.” This however is not a license to remarry. But if they will dwell in peace, stay and be a light.
- If safety is at stake, separation can be used for protection (1 Corinthians 7:11) while seeking God’s order. Holiness never requires you to remain in harm’s way, but it also does not make regret a license for divorce.
- God can turn “wrong” into “holy” when you submit the home to His Word—repent, forgive, pray, and live the covenant. He honors His order.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice, the way out of a troubled marriage is rarely out—it’s up. Bring the home under the Word, seek peace, and let the Lord make bitter waters sweet. Where Scripture gives no release, faithfulness is the path—and God meets those who honor their vows.
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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 Message of Grace
61-0827 §119
And directly He found her trouble. How many knows what it was? Sure. She was living with her sixth husband. So you see, it's wrong when you got a living husband and so forth, and going out and just for any cause put a woman away, and marry her and go marry another one, marry another one, marry another one. You shouldn't do that. So He said... Then I guess she was living without even being married to him. She might never have married him. She might not have never even been married. So she said ... all these evil thi...
The worst sinner in the city
56-0218E §99
Everybody in prayer, will you? I'm just strangely feeling, tonight. Something wrong, something is wrong somewhere. What's wrong? Come on. Everybody seek out your heart. Find out just what's wrong, as we sing once more. As we sing. Come now. God is speaking to somebody, I know it. Just as I am and waiting not To rid my soul of one dark blot, To Thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot, O Lamb of God, I come! I come! Just as I am, Thou will receive, Will welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve; Because Thy promise I believe...
Come, let us reason together
55-1004 §82
...led to the platform. All right, you look this way and believe. Have faith. How many of you don't have prayer cards? I meant to say. Let's see you raise your hands now. Now, if I call you without a prayer card... If you got a prayer card, you get to the platform anyhow. I want those who answer, don't have a prayer card. 'Course I can't tell here; I just have to follow the way the Angel of the Lord leads me, or takes me to go. Then I just follow that. And now, it's your faith that does it. Now, how many that understa...
Get the people to believe
52-0717 §3
Now, there's many times that I can speak to people, and talk to them, and things; or if I go, and if the anointing is very deep, and I go to talking to people, why, the first thing you know, a vision will break before me. And I could speak to the person; maybe that would... And they can't hide their life. So that'll probably inspire them. But that doesn't heal them, you see. But I've always thought... And in Africa this worked perfectly. And when I would--would just... They would see something done, something or ot...
Questions and Answers on Hebrews, part 1
57-0925 §59
Now, the Oneness teaching of the Oneness church, I certainly disagree with them, thinking that Jesus is one like your finger is one. He had to have a father. If He didn't, how could He be His own father? And if His Father was a man like the trinitarian says, then he was born a illegitimate birth with two fathers. So, you see, you're both wrong by arguing, see. But the truth of it is, that both Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is one personality. [Gap in the audio.]... of dwelling in a tabernacle of flesh, to take sin f...