Don’t be unequally yoked...Seriously!

In 2 Corinthians 6:14, Paul writes “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common or what fellowship can light have with darkness?”

In these verses, our heavenly Father makes it clear that we are not to live in the same way or worship with, or as, unbelievers. That’s not to say we shouldn’t witness to the world around us or invite them to church, but it warns that we should not adopt their methods of ungodly living or follow them in worship practices that don’t glorify our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

The Corinthians were tempted to worship and do what unbelievers do, but in verse 17, we are told to be separate—for we are the Lord’s people. So we see, just to gain crowds we aren’t to sing ungodly songs, but only worship songs to our Savior in our services together as believers. Neither, as we witness, are we to practice ungodly living traits—that these verses tell us are wicked and dark. You see, my friends, Jesus tells us to be “in the world, but not of the world”.

Natural men won’t understand us, but we must never join forces with them by becoming ungodly ourselves in the hope to win them to Christ. And that includes marrying or even dating a non-believer, because in a yoke two oxen were meant to pull together and that’s impossible for an unbeliever and believer who serve two different masters. Think about it! 

And there you go.