What Does the Bible Say About Being Evenly-yoked?

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

2 John 1:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

2 Corinthians 6:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; ...

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord. ...

Deuteronomy 22:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

James 4:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

1 Corinthians 10:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.

1 Corinthians 7:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. ...

Leviticus 19:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.

1 Peter 3:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

2 Corinthians 5:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. ...

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.

1 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

John 17:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.

John 17:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Mark 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

29 Bible Verses about Being Evenly-yoked

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

2 John 1:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 4:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 17:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 17:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Mark 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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29 Bible Verses about Being Evenly-yoked

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2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

2 John 1:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 4:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 17:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 17:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes