What does the Bible say about forgiving a husband after he’s been found out cheating on his wife?
Question by Princess Yum Yum: What does the Bible say about forgiving a husband after he’s been found out cheating on his wife?
I know Christians are to forgive those who sin against them and just as we forgive others, so shall we be forgiven. But if a husband has been caught out cheating on his wife, does the wife have to forget as well as forgive? Is she obliged to make up and pretend nothing happened? Can a Christian wife forgive her cheating husband and then either separate from or divorce him?
What does the Bible have to say about this?
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Answer by Admodeus
Thou shalt get a divorce lawyer.
Thou shalt serve the papers.
Thou shalt bicker over details.
Thou shalt be separate.
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
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You can separate, but not divorce.
And i’m sure you can do much better than a cheating scumbag hun.
quit being a witch and he won’t cheat
Biblically?
Paul said only a Bishop should have one wife.
Understand the nature of your beast.
In the bible it was only wrong for the woman.
But forgive seventy times seven and you’ll either lose count or get used to it.
Forgiving and forgetting are two different things. Forgiving means not bearing ill will, letting go of it and it is for your OWN benefit that you forgive. Stewing in bitterness and resentment is a recipe for misery.
But it doesn’t mean that you pretend nothing happened. My own hard learned opinion is that if your partner cheats then pack your bags and walk away from it without a second thought. Of course i don’t know the details so my opinion in this doesn’t really count for much and it’s always more complicated, a million times more if there are kids involved.
There are at least 5 levels of ‘forgiveness’. 1)not seeking to hurt the person. 2)not wishing them to be hurt. 3)being civil to them. 4)trusting them. 5)taking their sin, and giving them righteousness for it. #5 only YAHUSHUA can do. #4 depends on the state of mind of the guilty party. All believers in YAHUSHUA are exhorted to do #1 and #2.
you can if you wish…problem is future trust..
try biblegateway
You can forgive but you will never forget. Marriage is based on trust and once that trust is broken the marriage is put on a slippery slope towards divorce. It is a shame but there is a book in the Bible that could help you but for what ever reason was not put into the Protestant Bible but it is in the Torah under a hebrew name.
why ask the question read the bible ur self if u have not got one go and borrow next doors to me the question should be why did he cheat on u i can guess but i cant comment
Is he a serial offender? Hass he cheated on you severla tiems?
Is he refusing to get therapy?
Have you got a good lawyer?
If your answer is yes to all those questions start using the Divorce word to get his attention!
Maybe the threat of alimony will reduce his libido?
If one’s spouse has been unfaithful, one can Scripturally divorce them, BUT, is not obliged to.
The innocent spouse can either choose to forgive & forget, OR, to divorce . . . as discussed in:
“When a Mate is Unfaithful” :
– Infidelity–Its Tragic Consequences
– Is Reconciliation Possible?
– The Option of Divorce
– Meaningful Support
– Why Some Stay Together
– Who Is Responsible?
– Children Do Not Deserve Divorce
– Does God Hate All Divorce?
http://watchtower.org/e/19990422/article_01.htm
the bible is a load of rubbish. if something so serious has happened to you then you should have your own feelings towards your husband and how you feel, not turning to the bible, its irrelevent
Yes divorce is permissible in the case of marital unfaithfulness (you should still forgive if he repents, but that doesn’t mean you have to forget or take him back).
Matthew 5:32 32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
It is commonly believed and practiced within most churches that marital unfaithfulness is justification for divorce, although not everyone agrees with this interpretaton.
If you want God to forgive you, you should also forgive others:14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses”Mathew 6:14-15
The Bible says in 1John 1:8-9:”8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”
Please pray now: “Jesus, I believe that You died on the cross to pay for my sins and that You rose from the dead, and I thank You for eternal life. Thank you Jesus because you say in Romans 5:5 that you poured your love in my heartby the Holy Spirit, and then from now I have the ability to forgive and love…(the person name)”
“And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.”Romans 5:5
You have to be thanking God every day concerning the fact that you have forgiving…(the person name) til the day you realise you fill anger no more.
Put in mind that the devil will try his best to destroy all christians’ relations. Lack of forgiveness destroy one person: the person who is angry not the other part.
It stated in the Bible forgive your Brother 70 x 7
Thus you can forgive your husband too
I think the only Option is to Forgive your husband as Divorce for a woman in Bible is not mentioned.
NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES IT STATE THE A WOMAN CAN DIVORCE HER HUSBAND.
I checked too and can’t find one .. Scripture that states a Woman can.. However a Man can.re Adultery..
http://www.jeremiahproject.com/culture/divorce.html
Adultery breaks the marriage. The one flesh has been compromised.
The law illustrates this. Under the law an adultery carries the death penalty and obviously confirms the end of the marriage. And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Christ indicated it ends the marriage since fornication is the acceptable reason to divorce. Divorce is simply the statement that confirms the reality. That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
The marriage bond is so exclusive that even if a divorce is obtained, except for the cause of adultery, then any new marrige is in fact adultery. Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Christ shows that the law allowed divorce for other reasons because of the hardness of their hearts, He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
It appears divorce or separation is inevitable although Hosea was required to marry a faithless wife at the Lord’s word as an exception to illustrate Israel’s faithlessness.
Remember too the injunction to be holy. How is that possible with an adulterous husband or wife?
Who but the woman concerned has the right to determine that?