Being Equally Yoked

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. — read the full passage →

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom: — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. — read the full passage →

Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

neither shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall keep my statutes. “‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. “‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; “‘neither shall there come upon you a garment made of two kinds of material.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

and he said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing! Go out of the midst of her! Cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you; — read the full passage →

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. — read the full passage →

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. — read the full passage →

The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord. — read the full passage →

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people answered him not a word.

The Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. — read the full passage →

and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them; — read the full passage →

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

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. — read the full passage →

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.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

for he who welcomes him participates in his evil works.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

In the same way, 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; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain, — read the full passage →

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves, — read the full passage →

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. — read the full passage →

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. — read the full passage →

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.