Marrying A Non Believer

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 →

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

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

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;

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 →

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.

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

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 →

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

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. — 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 →

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.

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

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.

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,

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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.

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?’

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 the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”

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 →

When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.

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

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

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.

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

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 →

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

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.”

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”; — read the full passage →

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

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 →

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you; — read the full passage →

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

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 →

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth. — read the full passage →

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

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 →

Abstain from every form of evil.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, — read the full passage →

and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. — read the full passage →

neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

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 I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

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

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe. — read the full passage →

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

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.” — read the full passage →

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 →

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Do all things without murmurings and disputes,

always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons. — read the full passage →

Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

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.”

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

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.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.