What Does the Bible Say About Dating A Non-christain?

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 7 helpful votes

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

2 Corinthians 6:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Leviticus 19:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.

Jude 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

2 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

2 Corinthians 6:14-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,

2 Corinthians 6:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; ...

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 Corinthians 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

1 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Acts 17:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 19:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord. ...

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Deuteronomy 7:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

Leviticus 18:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord. ...

Exodus 34:10-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst. You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), ...

33 Bible Verses about Dating A Non-christain

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jude 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 17:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 7:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 34:10-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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33 Bible Verses about Dating A Non-christain

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2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jude 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 17:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 7:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 34:10-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes