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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Church Order
63-1226 §45
And by doing so, we have often ... people has often gotten mad at us. They do at me, too! They'll do at any man, see. A person that does that, there's something wrong with that person. They're not right with God, for the Spirit of Christ is subject to Christ's teaching, Christ's house, Christ's order, see. And any man that ... or any woman, or any person, children, that would get angry with a godly deacon that would tell them to be ... or any parent would get angry with a deacon... Really, we want everybody in this...
The stature of a perfect man
62-1014M §21
I might say something here. The reason I believe... Now someone got me all wrong here not long ago. I got a letter from the Ministerial Association that said that I believed that we were soul-mated; and we must leave our companions if we're not soul-mated to them, to marry another one that we were soul-mated to. Oh, my! I said, "I'm not guilty of a heresy like that." I've always been against that. I don't believe in that. Certainly not. I believe that God gives us a mate. That's true. And then we become part of eac...
Christ is revealed in His own Word
65-0822M §26
...them at the table yesterday when we was eating... We always sit around and have a little ... like a little study on the Bible. Was talking about love. And there's a certain person said to me, he said, "I believe you're an antichrist." I said, "If that would be pleasing to my Lord, that's what I want to be. I want to be whatever He wants me to be. I love Him. And if He should cast me into hell, I still will love Him, if I go with the same spirit I have now." He looked at me kind of strange. I seen four or five of th...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
61-0118 §41
...case He has to act on every case thereafter the same; because, I could make a decision today and it could be right. Tomorrow I might make the same decision and it would be wrong because it was wrong at the first place, maybe. But when God ever makes a decision it's perfect, because we are finite. We make mistakes. God's infallible, and infinite, and cannot make a mistake. Therefore, what God said is perfectly right. And if He was ever called on the scene to save a sinner, the attitude He took towards that sinner ....
There is a man here that can turn on the light
63-1229M §44
A fellow said not long ago--I was telling you about--he said, "I don't care if you'd bring fifty cancers and bring fifty doctors to testify of them, I don't believe. I don't care if you'd raise up the dead right before me; I wouldn't believe it." See, there's something wrong with that person. And yet the man was a minister (see)-- supposed to be a minister. But just because that organization doesn't believe in the power of God, don't believe that the Word meant just what it said, the man runs into this basement, ol...