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Marrying A Non Christian

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1 Corinthians 7:12–14

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 6:14

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

2 Corinthians 6:14–17

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:14–16

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 15:33

Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

1 Peter 3:1

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

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

1 Corinthians 10:13

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 7:15

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

1 John 1:7

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

Romans 12:2

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 10:21

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

Amos 3:3

Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?

1 Corinthians 7:14

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

1 Corinthians 7:13

And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Luke 1:37

For no word from God shall be void of power.

1 Corinthians 2:14

Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

2 Timothy 3:1–17

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 6:14–15

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

1 Kings 11:4

For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.

Deuteronomy 7:3

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.

Matthew 19:5

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

Deuteronomy 7:3–4

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 →

James 4:4

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

2 Corinthians 6:14–16

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:4–6

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:12–16

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Deuteronomy 7:1–4

When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; — read the full passage →

Malachi 2:15

And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Proverbs 12:15

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; But he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.

Deuteronomy 22:10

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

Galatians 1:10

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

1 Corinthians 5:11

but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

Proverbs 31:1–31

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

Ezra 10:11

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

Revelation 1:1–20

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:7

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

1 Corinthians 11:3

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.

Ezra 9:1–10:44

Now when these things were done, the princes drew near unto me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. — read the full passage →

James 1:3

knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

Ephesians 5:22–33

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 6:14–18

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 9:5

Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

1 Corinthians 7:1–16

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

1 Peter 3:1–2

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 10:14

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Deuteronomy 7:3–6

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 →

2 Peter 3:15–16

And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote unto you; — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 6:1–18

And working together with him we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain — read the full passage →

Proverbs 18:22

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

Micah 6:8

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Ecclesiastes 4:9–12

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 2:4–6

who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:1–3

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →

Galatians 3:28

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 8:4

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

2 Corinthians 6:17

Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,

1 Corinthians 10:7

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

1 Corinthians 3:11

For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Ruth 1:16–17

And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; — read the full passage →

Hebrews 6:4–10

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

1 Corinthians 10:23–27

All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify. — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:24

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

2 Corinthians 6:16

And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we 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 shall be my people.

1 Corinthians 13:13

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

2 Samuel 5:1–25

Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. — read the full passage →

John 14:6

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Proverbs 1:10

My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.

1 Timothy 1:3

As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

1 Corinthians 15:44

it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

1 Corinthians 8:11

For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

1 Corinthians 7:18–19

Was any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:16

For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

1 Corinthians 5:9

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

Nehemiah 13:26

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.

James 1:1–5:20

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

1 Timothy 1:4

neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; so do I now.

Ephesians 4:5

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

1 Corinthians 15:22

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

1 Corinthians 14:39

Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

1 Corinthians 12:8–31

For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit: — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 11:10

for this cause ought the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

1 Corinthians 7:29

But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

1 Corinthians 2:6–16

We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought: — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:9

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

Judges 21:1–25

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. — read the full passage →

Revelation 11:1–19

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →

Revelation 1:1

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

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

1 Thessalonians 4:1–18

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more. — read the full passage →

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:

1 Corinthians 15:22–25

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. — read the full passage →

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