107. Should a Christian ever marry an unbeliever?

Should a Christian ever marry an unbeliever?

Most assuredly not. To do so is to disobey the plainest directions of Gods Word. God says in 2 Corinthians 6:14 : “Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.” When a woman marries a man, or a man a woman, they are yoked together in the most complete and intimate sense. By “unbelievers” in this passage God evidently does not mean merely infidels, but all who have not definitely received Jesus Christ and surrendered their lives to Him.

More promising lives are shipwrecked by a marriage contrary to the Word of God than in almost any other way. Some women marry men for the purpose of converting them. Such marriages result in inevitable and unutterable misery. You cannot hope to convert another by disobeying God yourself.