Yoked

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.

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.

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 →

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.

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.

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?

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.

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 →

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.