Can a Divorced Christian Remarry?
Can a Christian who is Divorced remarry if the person they were divorced from was a non-Christian? Yes. Paul explicitly says in 1 Corinthians 7:28-29: “Are you bound [married] to a wife? Do not seek to be released [divorced]. Are you released [previously been divorced] from a wife? Do not seek [to be married to] a wife. But if you marry, you have not sinned ; and if a virgin [one who has never before been married] marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.” The Bible is telling us here that if a Christian has been divorced before from a non-Christian (1 Corinthians 7:15), they are free to remarry, as long as it is to a Christian (1 Corinthians 7:39). This would also apply to non-Christians who have been divorced prior to becoming a Christian, and seeking to be married in the Lord. The Bible says, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all ...