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

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. — read the full passage →

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

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

Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed: neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.

Let as many as are servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

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.

Yea, I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

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

I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.

I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:

Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

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

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.

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

holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away.

For perhaps he was therefore parted from thee for a season, that thou shouldest have him for ever; — read the full passage →

and Jesus that is called Justus, who are of the circumcision: these only are my fellow-workers unto the kingdom of God, men that have been a comfort unto me.

Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye: — read the full passage →

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,

Now therefore why make ye trial of God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondman;

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

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 →

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.

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

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 →

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

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 they received of us.

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

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

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

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.

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but let them serve them the rather, because they that partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. These things teach and exhort.

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire.

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to be of the same mind in the Lord. — read the full passage →

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, and forbear threatening: knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.

Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →

giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh — read the full passage →

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same? — read the full passage →

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.

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

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? — read the full passage →

So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee have me excused.

Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. — read the full passage →

Hear the word of Jehovah, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast broken the bars of wood; but thou hast made in their stead bars of iron. — read the full passage →

And I spake to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

And it shall come to pass, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith Jehovah, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall depart from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.

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

Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over unto him, and cast his mantle upon him. — read the full passage →

And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

And he said unto them, What counsel give ye, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us lighter? — read the full passage →

This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke.

And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible thing that I do with thee. — read the full passage →

And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible thing that I do with thee.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, andperfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.

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

I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.

If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into your house, and give him no greeting:

Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

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;

because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.

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

A factious man after a first and second admonition refuse;

And yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

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

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