Bible Verses About Marrying a Non Believer
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marrying a non believer, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,028 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 7:12-14. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Marrying a Non Believer
1 Corinthians 7:12-14329 votes
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
2 Corinthians 6:14233 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
1 Corinthians 15:33142 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1 Peter 3:1121 votes
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
2 Corinthians 6:14-17107 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
1 Corinthians 7:15101 votes
But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
1 Corinthians 7:13-1480 votes
And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4077 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 7:3969 votes
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
Deuteronomy 7:1-451 votes
When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
1 Corinthians 7:14-1644 votes
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
2 Corinthians 6:14-1543 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Amos 3:342 votes
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
1 Corinthians 7:1441 votes
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
2 Timothy 3:541 votes
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Ephesians 5:3338 votes
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
James 4:438 votes
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Revelation 1:138 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Deuteronomy 7:334 votes
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Matthew 19:534 votes
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
1 Corinthians 2:1434 votes
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2 Corinthians 6:14-1634 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Ezra 10:1132 votes
Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
Genesis 2:2431 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Luke 1:3731 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
What does the Bible say about marrying a non believer?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 7:12-14 on the subject of marrying a non believer. Across 3,028 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Corinthians 6:14, 1 Corinthians 15:33, 1 Peter 3:1. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.