Is it permissible to break off an engagement to a young man who proposed to me—and whom I initially accepted, but the official engagement has not yet taken place—in order to marry another young man who is superior to him in knowledge, character, social standing, and religious commitment? And would I incur sin for doing so?
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You bear no sin if you do not approve of the first suitor should someone better come forward.
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