Bible Verses About Marrying a Non Christian
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marrying a non christian, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,603 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 Christian
1 Corinthians 7:12-14439 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 6:14285 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:14-17183 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 7:14-16141 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.
1 Corinthians 15:33130 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1 Corinthians 7:39109 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.
1 Peter 3:191 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;
1 Corinthians 7:1-4080 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 10:1358 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1 Corinthians 7:1556 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 John 1:737 votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Romans 12:233 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1 Corinthians 10:2130 votes
Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.
Amos 3:329 votes
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
1 Corinthians 7:1329 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 7:1429 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.
Luke 1:3727 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
1 Corinthians 13:1-1327 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 2:1426 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.
Deuteronomy 7:325 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.
1 Kings 11:425 votes
For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
2 Corinthians 6:14-1525 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2 Timothy 3:1-1725 votes
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Matthew 19:524 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?
Deuteronomy 7:3-423 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.
What does the Bible say about marrying a non christian?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 7:12-14 on the subject of marrying a non christian. Across 2,603 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Corinthians 6:14, 2 Corinthians 6:14-17, 1 Corinthians 7:14-16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.