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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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 9:E-95
...Now this false church has zeal; make no mistake about that. Her zeal has literally been that of the Jews, John 2:17, "The zeal of thine house hath eaten Me up." But it is a wrong zeal. It is for the house of their own building. It is for their own creeds, dogmas, organizations, their own righteousness. They have put the Word out for their own ideas. They deposed the Holy Ghost and made men into leaders. They have put aside Eternal Life as a Person, and make it good works, or even church conformity rather than good...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 9:E-39
...now we often talk about a great unchanging God, Whose Word does not change. And when we speak of Him after that manner we often get a view of Him that makes Him seem very impersonal. It is as though God made the whole universe and all the laws that pertain to it and then stood back and became a great impersonal God. It is as though God made a way of salvation for lost mankind, that way being the cross, and then when the death of Christ has atoned for our sins, and His resurrection gave us an open door to Him, God j...