Unevenly Yoked With Unbelievers

Unevenly yoked with unbelievers. To be or not to be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. An unequally yoked team has one stronger ox and one weaker or one taller and one shorter. While the letter is riddled with beauty it is not without its perplexing passages. In this blog let us learn what it means to be unequally.

You re probably right to suggest that paul wasn t thinking primarily of marriage when he wrote do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers 2 corinthians 6 14 esv but that doesn t mean the principle can t have broader application. 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. An unequally yoked team has one stronger ox and one weaker or one taller and one shorter. The weaker or shorter ox would walk more slowly than the taller stronger one causing the load to go around in circles.

Or even an interpolation. When oxen are unequally yoked they cannot perform the task set before them. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. When oxen are unequally yoked they cannot perform the task set before them.