Upon being divorced from her first husband, a woman married a second man, who is now dead. She desired to return to her first husband, but couldn’t since he had already remarried. Can she with God’s approval marry another? Another Christian?

QUESTION: Upon being divorced from her first husband, a woman married a second man, who is now dead. She desired to return to her first husband, but couldn’t since he had already remarried. Can she with God’s approval marry another? Another Christian?

ANSWER: She cannot marry under either case with God’s approval, unless the divorce from her first husband was for the cause of fornication, in which she was the totally innocent party (Matthew 5:32; Matthew 19:1-9).