Bible Verses About Marrying an Unbeliever
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marrying an unbeliever, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,916 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 7:12-16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Marrying an Unbeliever
1 Corinthians 7:12-16243 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 6:14229 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 15:33112 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1 Corinthians 7:39104 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 7:3-497 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 Corinthians 7:1487 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 6:1570 votes
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
Ephesians 5:3345 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.
2 Corinthians 6:14-1544 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 6:1842 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4039 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Amos 3:333 votes
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
2 Corinthians 6:14-1831 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 7:1528 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.
2 Corinthians 6:14-1628 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
1 Peter 3:128 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 7:12-1326 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.
Deuteronomy 7:1-425 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;
Deuteronomy 7:324 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 11:423 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.
Proverbs 12:1523 votes
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
Romans 12:221 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.
James 4:1721 votes
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Luke 1:3720 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
James 4:420 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.
What does the Bible say about marrying an unbeliever?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 on the subject of marrying an unbeliever. Across 1,916 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Corinthians 6:14, 1 Corinthians 15:33, 1 Corinthians 7:39. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.