Bible Verses about “mixed marriages”
The Bible contains 12 verses about mixed marriages across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”
“Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.”
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
“For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.”
“The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.”
“Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?”
“But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.”
“A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.”
“For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?”
“He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,”
“neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.”
“For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.”