Question:
Does 2 Corinthians 6:14 mean “yoked by marriage”? Does it have reference to the yoke spoken of in Matthew 11:29, 30? Unequally in what way?
Answer:
It means a voluntary yoking up with unbelievers in any way that will compromise the faith of the Christian or restrain his freedom to serve or worship God. Certainly, from all God’s dealings with His people in the past, and from the fact that marriage is the closest earthly relation known, the text must include marriage with unbelievers. The last question is answered in the first. We can do certain things with unbelievers in helping them and others, which do not involve a compromise of faith. In these things, God’s Spirit must guide. Those who yoke up with Christ Jesus must break fellowship with the Master when they yoke up with wickedness or sin of any sort.
