Being Unequally Yoked

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. — read the full passage →

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. — read the full passage →

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? — read the full passage →

Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. — read the full passage →

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. — read the full passage →

Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. — read the full passage →

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. — read the full passage →

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? — read the full passage →

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: — read the full passage →

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. — read the full passage →

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; — read the full passage →

Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

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

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.