Being Unequally 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 →

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 →

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

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 →

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

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.

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 shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

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 →

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.

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.

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.

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? — read the full passage →

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

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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

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

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — 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.

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 →

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

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

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.

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

Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

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

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 →

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.”

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

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.

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 →

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

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.

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.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

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

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

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

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.

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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.

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

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

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

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 →

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

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.

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,

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 →

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 they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

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.

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

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.

What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever? — read the full passage →

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

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

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to 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.

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

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

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; — read the full passage →

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

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 →

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

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

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 →

Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his 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.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

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 dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

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

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

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

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 →

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

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

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 →

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

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 →

Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be open wide.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;