Don’t Be Unequally Yoked!!!

What does being unequally yoked mean?  What does GOD say in HIS WORD about being unequally yoked??? 

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 (ESV)

¹⁴ Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
¹⁵ What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

THE WORD tells us that we shouldn’t marry someone who isn’t a CHILD OF GOD – someone who isn’t a follower of Christ!!!  We shouldn’t marry an unbeliever!!! 

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 (CEV)

¹⁴ Stay away from people who are not followers of the Lord! Can someone who is good get along with someone who is evil? Are light and darkness the same?

¹⁵ Is Christ a friend of Satan? Can people who follow the Lord have anything in common with those who don’t?


If a child of GOD marries an unbeliever (someone who doesn’t follow Christ,) then the believer is unequally yoked with the unbeliever!!!  They are tied or bound by marriage to the person!!!  They are NOT equal in their faith, because they do NOT both believe in GOD!!! 


Unbelievers hinder the prayers of believers and because they do NOT know any better, they do NOT speak in FAITH!!!  They speak doubt and unbelief (because they do NOT believe in GOD or in HIS WORD!!!)


GOD is very clear in HIS WORD!!!  GOD doesn’t want HIS children to marry someone who doesn’t believe in HIM or worship HIM!!!  HE didn’t want the children of Israel to be lead astray and HE doesn’t want us, as HIS children to be lead away from HIM!!!


Deuteronomy 7:3-4 (NCV)

³ Do not marry any of them, or let your daughters marry their sons, or let your sons marry their daughters.

⁴ If you do, those people will turn your children away from me, to begin serving other gods. Then the Lord will be very angry with you, and he will quickly destroy you.


This is the very reason that GOD tells HIS people NOT to intermarry!!!  HE didn’t want the children of Israel following after some man or woman and worshipping idols and man made gods.  And HE doesn’t want us to do that either. 


GOD wanted HIS children to stay pure in their hearts and to love and worship HIM!!!  That’s why HE specifically told them NOT to marry people from other nations who worshipped other gods!!! 


Any time, the Jewish people married people from other nations who didn’t follow GOD, it caused problems!!! 


Judges 16:4-10 (NCV)

⁴ After this, Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Valley of Sorek.

⁵ The Philistine rulers went to Delilah and said, “Find out what makes Samson so strong. Trick him into telling you how we can overpower him and capture him and tie him up. If you do this, each one of us will give you twenty-eight pounds of silver.”

⁶ So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me why you are so strong. How can someone tie you up and capture you?”

⁷ Samson answered, “Someone would have to tie me up with seven new bowstrings that have not been dried. Then I would be as weak as any other man.”

⁸ The Philistine rulers brought Delilah seven new bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied Samson with them.

⁹ Some men were hiding in another room. Delilah said to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But Samson broke the bowstrings like pieces of burned string. So the Philistines did not find out the secret of Samson’s strength.

¹⁰ Then Delilah said to Samson, “You made a fool of me. You lied to me. Now tell me how someone can tie you up.”


First of all, it is never a good idea to get mixed up with someone who doesn’t follow Christ!!!  And secondly, you don’t play around with GOD or with the devil!!!  If you do, you’ll lose out in the end!!!  When you are anointed, you should know better!!! 


Judges 16:15-21 (NKJV)

¹⁵ Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

¹⁶ And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, so that his soul was vexed to death,

¹⁷ that he told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”

¹⁸ When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart.” So the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.

¹⁹ Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.

²⁰ And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” So he awoke from his sleep, and said, “I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free!” But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.

²¹ Then the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze fetters, and he became a grinder in the prison.


Any time a believer marries someone who doesn’t worship GOD, it causes problems!!!  That’s why GOD tells us NOT to marry unbelievers!!!


Solomon was one of the greatest and wisest kings that ever lived, but because he did NOT obey GOD!!!  His many unbelieving wives turned his heart away from GOD.  Solomon lost all that GOD had given HIM!!!  HE literally threw away his inheritance!!! 

1 Kings 11:1-4 (NKJV)

¹ But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites— ² from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, “You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.

³ And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. ⁴ For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.


ONLY because of GOD’s love for his father, David, and GOD’s promise to David, was Solomon allowed to keep his kingdom.  GOD was merciful and told Solomon that HE would take all, but one portion of the kingdom from his son!!!


1 Kings 11:9-13 (NKJV)

⁹ So the Lord became angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, ¹⁰ and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the Lord had commanded.

¹¹ Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

¹² Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

¹³ However I will not tear away the whole kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.”


The wisest men surround themselves with even wiser men and woman because they know that the folks around you influence you and your actions. 


As the children of GOD, we need to be wise!!!  We need to understand that those we keep company with always influence us!!!


If we would keep this in mind, we would be careful who we spend time with and even more careful about who we marry!!!


There is an old saying that goes like this!!!  THE HEART WANTS WHAT THE HEART WANTS!!!  


But I say to you, Don’t keep company or spend time with unsaved folks!!!!  If you don’t hang around unsaved folks, then your heart will NOT want someone who is unsaved!!! 


BE CAREFUL AND GUARD YOUR HEART!!!  GUARD YOUR HEART, SO THAT YOUR HEART WON’T BE ENTANGLED WITH SOMEONE WHO IS UNSAVED!!!