What does the Bible say about marrying a single mother?
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The Bible does not forbid a Christian from marrying a single mother, but calls both spouses to enter marriage faithfully, chastely, and with a lifelong covenant commitment. Genesis 2:24 presents marriage as a one-flesh union, and Hebrews 13:4 commands that marriage be honored and kept sexually pure. Jesus’ teaching in Mark 10:11-12, Luke 16:18, and Matthew 19:9 requires serious attention to any prior divorce, since remarriage must not disregard God’s design or involve adultery. Where a woman is free to marry biblically, 1 Corinthians 7:2 encourages honorable marriage, while 1 Peter 3:1 and 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 call believers to patient, godly faithfulness within family life.
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- Mark 10:12
If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."
- Luke 16:18
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
- Romans 7:2
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
- Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- 1 Corinthians 7:2
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
- Matthew 19:9
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."
- Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Mark 10:11
He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.
- 1 Corinthians 7:12-16
[12] But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. [13] The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband. [14] For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now are they holy. [15] Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace. [16] For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
- 1 Peter 3:1
In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
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