Can a Woman Marry Another Husband?

Can a Woman marry another Man?

These verses stop women from having more than one husband living at any one time. They do not stop men from having more than one wife because firstly, they quite simply don’t say it, and secondly, it is clearly not a general principle which applies regardless of sex. That can be seen in the way the Old Testament repeats and rewrites laws that apply to men where they apply to women, and in the immediate context of the passage in Romans. The reason the Bible gives is that a woman is under the law of her husband until he dies. While the Bible does talk of marriage partners having authority over each other’s bodies, it never talks of a man being under the law of his wife. In fact, it numerous places the Bible indicates that that would be intolerable, such as 1 Timothy 2 v 12 “I do not allow a woman to teach or to usurp authority over the man“.

“The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbours wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.“

Leviticus 20 v 10

“If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman, so you shall put away the evil person from Israel.“

Deuteronomy 22 v 22

“So then if, while her husband is living she marries another man, she shall be called an adulteress, but if her husband has died, she is free from that law, so that she is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.“

Romans Chapter 7 v 3

A woman cannot have two husbands because she cannot follow two leaders. A man can have two wives because it is perfectly possible to lead more than one person.

This can be seen in the phrase in 1 Corinthians 7 v 2 which is sometimes quoted out of context in an attempt to suggest the Bible limits polygamy- “Let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”

The words for “his own” and “her own” in this verse are different, and it is not simply a gender difference. This is what we would expect if the way in which they belong to the other differs according to gender. If you check the word for “her own” and look up Romans 14, you will see it is the same word used there of a servant and “his own master”.

Romans 11:25For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

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Esther 1:20 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

Judges 21:7 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

1 Samuel 1:2 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

Genesis 4:23 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.


Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

Ezra 10:44 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

1 Kings 11:3 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

2 Chronicles 11:21 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)

Ruth 1:11 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?





Zechariah 12:13 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

Ruth 1:13 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.

Jeremiah 44:9 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Zechariah 12:12 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

Deuteronomy 21:15 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

Jeremiah 44:25 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

Daniel 5:23 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context

But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:


And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.




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