Two born-again Christians fell in love. One is single, the other divorced. Could they get married?

A born-again Christian single meets and falls in love with another Christian who was previously married. The divorced person is the innocent party; his wife cheated on him and left him to marry her lover. May they get married?

Dr. Leslie McFall on Divorce and Remarriage under Unpublished articles on divorce

All scriptures are from the New King James Version.

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[Helen-vquj]

Excellent teaching. My husband divorced me 7 years ago. I remain single-I’ve never dated due to the words in the Bible.

[malamuteaerospace]

Man millions of believers are living in this sin. Yet look at the comment section it's full of remarried divorcee who are trying to make every single excuse to justify their behaviour.
Yet JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF SAID IT.

[xjumpmaster]

Churches need to preach this. There are so many in the church who are divorced and remarried and claim God took them out of their first marriage and brought them to a Godly man. Or they believe they are "once saved always saved". I am divorced myself and just finding this out. I guess I will be single forever but if that's God's will then it will be done.

[GodsChildSamantha]

Adultery is the biggest accepted sexual sin in the body of Christ, so God bless you for this bold and uncomfortable truth. Please continue to make more as the Spirit leads you.

[GeorgeSerofim]

Only Death can Separate the Husband and wife Marriage...

[starr]

It's crazy because my husband and I been married for 10 years. This is my first marriage, and my husband 2cnd and his ex wife got a divorce because of their abamdoment and sexual immorality, now years later here i come along get married to my husband only to find out that he must go back and be reconcile to his first how painful that is to my
I pray that GOD will strengthen me in every area of my life.
I pray that he will bless me with a husband of my own, I'm 40yrs of age, I dont want to grow old by myself.

[faithselflove]

I’m am soo frustrated and trying to control my anger and give it to God. My ex husband is engaged to a single mum Christian who he met in his new church. He left me neither of us cheated. People in church are making him believe it’s ok and the Christian women is a single mum who knew he was still married when they started talking. He used to be against all of this strongly now it’s like he’s asleep and isn’t waking up from his sin. I till this day am still loyal to him. He was always the stronger Christian then me soo I still never understand how he is being this deceived

[dogacangencer]

Matthew 19:9 Sorry but it's clear you can remarry if the divorce is based on sexual immortality. And if the man/woman can the woman/man (cheater) can also because there are not bond anymore. But be sure divorce have much consequence for example, bad impact of kids, emotional damage, bad mindset, healing wounds, damaged souls etc.

Also is not good to tell other two quit the second, third etc. Marriage. That will do exactly the same thing and bring consequences for the new family just of a false believing that people can't remarry (in cause of sexual immortality). It't very dangerous to make other fear and tell they are going to hell. If this causes new divorces off remarried people who are living happy, in broken families and damaged children again, God forbid

[ronaldbraithwaite]

This video so does speak to my situation. I was a single Christian and got married to a divorcee after her husband divorced her for no other sexual sins but he was unfaithful to her and backslide too. I didnt know that i was committing adultery and be in a adulterous marriage. It will be hard to come out of this after being married for 4 years going to 5 this years. God help me and the person i got married to, and deliver us

[ajlouviere]

The divorce and remarriage for adultery doctrine is based solely on the supposed guilt of the wife in Matthew 5:32, and Matthew 19:9. However, the wife in Matthew 5:31-32 is clearly not guilty of fornication because the Jews that Jesus was speaking to were still living under the law, and if fornication was discovered, there was a moral obligation to report the offender according to Deuteronomy 22:13-24. The wife, who would have been found guilty of fornication, was subsequently stoned to death, according to the law, which had still governed the Jews up until Christ's death on the cross. The same for a woman caught in adultery, according to Leviticus 20:10. How could a wife, guilty of fornication, or adultery, under the law of Moses, be given a writing of divorcement and be caused to commit adultery with whosoever marries her, that is divorced? Jesus is clear, in these examples, that the wife is not guilty of fornication, but is still caused to commit adultery if she marries another man now that she is divorced. This is the only way that Matthew 5:31-32, and Matthew 19:9 keep harmony with Romans 7:2-3, and 1 Corinthians 7:39. 

Unlike the synoptic gospels of Mark and Luke, which were written to evangelize the Gentiles, Matthew was written to the Jews, and has of 24 characteristics that identify it as intended for the house of Israel. 

The ancient Jews called the betrothed (engaged) "husband" and "wife" according to Deuteronomy 22:23-24, Matthew 1:18-25, and Luke 2:5-7. 

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 (Moses's precept of divorce and remarriage) was never for fornication or adultery. Allowing those guilty of fornication and adultery to remain living and become a prospect for remarriage was against the law of Moses in Deuteronomy 22:13-24 and Leviticus 20:10, which commanded that those who were found guilty of fornication and adultery be put away from Israel, and stoned to death. 

The law of Moses was not given to the world, only to the Jews. From the exodus, to Christ's death on the cross, the law of Moses governed the Jewish people. But when Jesus died on the cross, he caused the Jews to be dead to the law of Moses so they could be joined to Christ under a New Covenant. This is what Jesus's fulfillment of the law of Moses, including Deuteronomy 24:1-4 (Moses's precept of divorce and remarriage), means. Paul gave several warnings to Christian believers against keeping the law of Moses over following Christ and his commands under the New Covenant with Christ. Keeping the whole law is no longer possible for those in Israel and that is why Christ prophesied that the temple would be destroyed. These scriptures make it clear that if you choose the law over Christ, that you must keep the whole law: Romans 7:4, Galatians 3:1-9, Galatians 3:10-29, Galatians 4:1-7, Galatians 4:21-31, and Galatians 5:1-15.

Being unequally yoked to unbelievers is not a cause for divorce, once two become one-flesh in a covenant of marriage, according to 1 Corinthians 7:12-14. Many one-flesh covenant marriages between unbelievers are recognized by God in the scriptures, most notably the marriage covenants between Herodias and King Herod's brother Philip, Potiphar and his wife, Ahab and Jezebel, and Ruth to her deceased husband Mahlon by Boaz when he took her to be his wife. 

Some are teaching that 1 Corinthians 7:15 implies that those who are abandoned by the unbeliever, are "no longer bound" in a one-flesh covenant of marriage. The reason this is in conflict is due to the way they word it, which gives it an entirely different meaning, and context. 1 Corinthians 7:15, says, "15But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace." As you can see, the actual scripture says "not under bondage, " which means that the husband or wife is not enslaved to sin with the unbelieving spouse, and is free to worship Christ in peace. Subsequent translations have changed the words to imply that they nullify the marriage covenant, when this is not at all the case. The issue that this creates is with 1 Corinthians 7:10-11, which says, "10And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: 11But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife." As you can see, those who claim 1 Corinthians 7:15 has the Apostle Paul giving permission to remarry do not understand that the abandoned husband in 1 Corinthians 7:11 is expected to also remain unmarried, in order to be reconciled with his wife. The theory that 1 Corinthians 7:15 nullifies two as being one-flesh in marriage puts the Apostle Paul directly at odds with Christ, by implying that he has issued an opposing command.  

Some also teach that 1 Corinthians 7:27-28 is referring to both divorced men and virgin women, and not exclusively to men and women (virgins) who have never been married. This has been falsely taught for some time in churches as referring to anyone who is not currently in a marriage, which, for them, also includes those who are divorced. This is a very false assumption, and puts these verses in a different context, that is at odds with both the teachings of Christ and the apostle Paul. We see Paul refer to virgins, which signifies the unmarried who have never before been wed, which is the proper context here. We see Paul saying clearly that it is good for virgins, which is also speaking to never before wed men here, "that it is good for a man so to be." He goes on to say, "Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife." Who is he referring to here? Men who, like himself, have never married. The word "bound", in these verses, is a clear reference to betrothal (engagement) and not to a one-flesh covenant of marriage. The ancient Jews were considered bound as husband and wife during the betrothal (espousal/engagement) before becoming one-flesh in a covenant of marriage, through consummation. This is affirmed by the context of the term "bound" seen in Numbers 30:14-16.

The Jewish couples in ancient Israel, who were betrothed (engaged) were also bound together until death, either by execution for fornication, or by other causes. Then Paul says, "But and if thou marry, thou has not sinned", which is who? The men who had never married in the congregation at Corinth. So he begins with verses 25-26 speaking exclusively to men that have never married. Paul then says, "and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned", which is speaking directly in regard to virgin women who have never been married, within the congregation, not divorced women. Notice that verse 34 says, "There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband." Paul speaks plainly when he says "there is a difference between a wife and a virgin." Paul goes on to say, "But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry." This is speaking of a virgin who has become of age to bear children when it says, "let them marry." This is a clear command, to a single man, who has taken a virgin to be his wife. Paul then says, "Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well." This is referring again to the single man who decides it is better not to marry, but to stay betrothed (engaged), under the present distress, by saying that he "hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin." Paul then says, "So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better", which again means single men, in the congregation, who have betrothed a wife, do well if they marry, and those who choose not to marry their virgin brides do better, under the current climate. For more proper context of the word "bound", let's look further down in this chapter to verse 39, which says, "39The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord" (1 Corinthians 7:39). For so long, these scriptures, between verses 25-38, have been twisted and used to enable divorce and remarriage, by wayward churches and teachers, and have caused many to stumble and to be trapped in unscriptural unions.

The use of the woman at the well, in regard to marriage, falsely implies that Christ was endorsing remarriage after a divorce. This teaching is in defiance of Matthew 22:23-28, which shows a woman who had been widowed seven times, and entered into each subsequent marriage without any scriptural conflicts with God's law of marriage (one-flesh covenant) seen in Genesis 2:23-24.

Mark 10:1-12 and Matthew 19:1-12 both record Christ's teaching that day beyond the Jordan. There is no mention of the words "fornication", "writing of divorcement", or "divorced" in Mark's Gospel, because Mark was not written to the Jews (as Matthew's Gospel was), but to evangelize the Romans and Greeks, who had no knowledge of the law of Moses in Deuteronomy 22 or Deuteronomy 24. All of these facts draw a clear understanding that remarriage after a divorce, under the New Covenant with Christ, is a scripturally false and baseless teaching. Please use wisdom when living in any situation against what the scriptures command.

[MrsYoung-inov]

If I file for divorce from an adulterous husband but I remain single, have I sinned? I am struggling with the fact that *I* filed and not him.

[ronbo]

Det. 24 says if your ex spouse marries another and they get divorced? You cannot remarry your first spouse again, bec they have been defiled and it’s a abomination to the Lord.

[bobbydamon]

I Appreciate this teaching/ those of US that believe that MARRIAGE is till DEATH, dont have the problem, that so many have, trying to find a reason, alibi, loophole, excuse to go against GODS Perfect will for RE-MARRIAGE ./

[letstalkbiblewithshun.s]

Fantastic teaching. God is pressing his children to get the word out so people do not go to hell

[DrVincentChia]

Many argue that the so-called "exception clause" for sexual immorality refers to adultery. The problem is, the punishment for adultery was DEATH, not divorce! Jesus came to fulfill the law (including Lev 20:10), and not to annul it. If the greek word for "sexual immorality" πορνείᾳ refers to adultery, than Jesus is contradicting the Levitical holiness code. As all the Word of God is from the Divine Logos, Jesus is made to contradict Himself. Eisegesis at its best.

[jdee]

I married my husband who is a divorcee and this is my first marriage while this is my husband's fourth marriage. I married him when I wasn't yet a Christian and now a year later after giving my life to christ (and my husband did too) I realise what God says in his word about remarriage and divorce. I want to do the right thing by coming out of the adulterous marriage but EVERYONE including my husband, family, friends and pastors all say I should stay that God forgives us Christians and when we become Christians His grace covers our sins.. This is so hard as everyone is against my decision and my husband is so depressed and has threatened to kill himself.. I keep praying to God to open his eyes and make him see the truth cos it's causing alot of tension for us

[acolley]

Thank you for making this. This is possibly the most common accepted sin in the body and almost no pastors address it.
Can you please address the excuse..."but I wasn't saved when I married the first time. My second husband and I are both saved."

I really Love this..Thanks so much and God bless you...

[philipbuckley]

God wants you....to be happy....hmmm.... I wonder how that would relate, to a same sex couple....

[jimbogratton]

Thank you 🙏🏻 for speaking truth to the lost divorced person straight from The Word. Most pastors are leading people to hell with this populous “exception” belief that is false!