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.
Attitude and Who is God?
50-0815 §27
But if He tells me something... Sometimes I'll catch the person and look right at them. And many times, if you'll notice, I'm always turning. That's... I know that, the pull of the faith coming in to me. If I stop, It'll start calling people. See? And I try to keep from that just as much as I possibly can, looking right upon the audience, 'cause as soon as you contact a person, the visions start raising. Nine out of ten will start. And when they do, then that... But that doesn't heal the person. But if... If you ca...
And then Jesus came
57-0302 §4
Sometime ago, I was in a discussion with a lady, who was a religious person, or she claimed to be. And she said to me, "Mr. Branham, I admire your preaching, but there is one thing that you do wrong." And I said, "I am always glad that someone will tell me where I am wrong, for I want to be right." And I appreciate anyone who will tell me when I am wrong. It shows your love for me. But then in being wrong, it's got to be proven wrong, and the proven wrong has to be by God's Bible. And she said to me, "Here's where...
Hebrews, Chapter 2, part 2
57-0825E §39
And while we have our heads bowed, I wonder if there's a person in the building tonight, under the divine presence of the Holy Spirit, would say, "Brother Branham, I'm convinced that I'm wrong. I'm convinced that I'm wrong. God has revealed to me my sins. And I know that I'm wrong. I will raise my hand to Him and ask for mercy, tonight. God be merciful to me, I'm wrong." Will you do that? While we wait just a moment, if there's a person here that wants to... There's a baptizing going to take place just in a moment....
The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast, part 1
61-0216 §10
But now, if the same person ... another person, approaches on that same basis, He's got to do the same thing. Or if it didn't, then He did wrong. He did wrong then, when He healed that one woman, and healed her that way. Then He did wrong when He healed her, if He didn't do the... If He did heal her, then if He doesn't heal you He acted wrong then when He healed the first one---if you'll meet the same requirements of faith that she did. It's only based on one thing, "I can, if ye believe." That's all. So, see, then...
Questions and Answers, Part 3
64-0830M §46
I'm going to say this. Just looked at a person a few minutes ago. He was asking me about a fine boy the other day. We was hunting squirrels. That morning I got five; I left one of them for that afternoon. You only get six in the state of Kentucky; that's the limit. So this certain person said, "I got nine." Christian boy, fine kid. I said, "You done wrong. You did wrong!" He said, "Well..." I said, "I had five that morning, saved one for that afternoon. And when I got that one squirrel, looked in a tree and counted...