Do Not Be Unequally Yoked With Unbelievers

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Whether in business or relationships christians are not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. While the letter is riddled with beauty it is not without its perplexing passages. The mason was instructed that if a christian held that he should not be unequally yoked with unbelievers he was to be told that 2 corinthians 6 14 was speaking of marriage and a christian should not be married to a non christian. 2 corinthians 6 14 do not be yoked together with unbelievers.

Bible verses about being unequally yoked. What does unequally yoked mean. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. 6 14 be not unequally yoked with unbelievers christians with jews or heathens.

Starting a business with an unbeliever can put christians in a terrible situation. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching do not take them into your house or welcome them. An unequally yoked team has one stronger ox and one weaker or one taller and one shorter. It can cause christians to compromise there will be disagreements etc.

Weymouth new testament do not come into close association with unbelievers like oxen yoked with asses. It means that christians cannot be bound with unbelievers specifically in the work in the church but on a broader level in any spiritual relationship. Or even an interpolation. The apostle particularly speaks of marriage.

The weaker or shorter ox would walk more slowly than the taller stronger one causing the load to go around in circles. One of the chief culprits is 2 corinthians 6 14 where paul states do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers he followed this imperative with a series of five questions used to draw a contrast saying. This very issue of not being unequally yoked was in this pamphlet. As christians we must seek the things of christ and be separate from the things of this world.

The two latter the conclusion. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. And what communion hath light with darkness. Ewald followed by dean stanley holsten and others thinks that here there is a sudden dislocation of the argument and some have even supposed that the section 2 corinthians 6 14 7 1 is either an after thought written by the apostle on the margin of the epistle after it was finished.

When oxen are unequally yoked they cannot perform the task set before them. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common. If you were thinking about doing this don t do it. Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work harmful influence and companions.

For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness.