Being Evenly Yoked

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

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — 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 →

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.

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 →

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

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 →

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,

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

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

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

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

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

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 →

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

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

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.

Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

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.”

“‘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.

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.

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

for he who welcomes him participates in his evil works.

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 →

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:

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 →

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

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

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.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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.

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

“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.

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

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

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

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.

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

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

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 →

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.

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

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

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.

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

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 →

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

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.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

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.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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

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.

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 →

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.”

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

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 →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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 →

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 →

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

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

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 →

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 →

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

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

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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 →

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

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

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.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

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

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

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;

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.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,