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NASB | 2 Corinthians 6:14 ¶ Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 6:14 ¶ Do not be unequally bound together with unbelievers [do not make mismatched alliances with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? |
Bible Question: I have a friend who is in the middle of a divorce. They are both Christians. He is involved with a business venture that takes a lot of his time. She does not believe that it will work and has stated so in several, some heated, arguments. He believes that God has called him to be in this business. (He believes VERY strongly.) Therefore, he says, since she doesn't believe in what he is doing, that they are "un-equally yoked" and that he can divorce her. He feels that he has the biblical right to divorce. Does he have any ground to stand on. Biblically the wife should support the husband. He has final say. |
Bible Answer: SgtMac: Greeting and Merry Christmass. Your note reads like you are close to the husband in this situation. What you have seen or heard is just the tip of the ice burg! This couple has far more problems than this job situation, let me assure you of that. I would say they are equally yoked in one area, and that's they both have hardness hearts. When a man makes a job change and takes the time to work with his wife and to pray together seeking the Lords will, and they both are in step with God and each other good comes from being united as they should be. Only then transitions are possible. God has not given her the assurance this is His direction for them. Women have a very keen intutive sence of problems ahead. This I think is part the of God need for their need for proterction and security. This man is foolish to be so insensitive. He is willing to destroy his family to follow what he thinks God is leading him into. God never works like that. God proberly is YELLING to him to rethink this. This is one area many of us husbands just demand our wives to pack up our families and move because we feel it is God's will. The damage it does lasts forever in our children and our wives. Being a true husband and one that is an example of Eph.6 would make sure everyone is on board before making a move. So he gets the job and looses his family. Tell me what good comes from that? If a divorce results that is most assuredly NOT God's will! I am positive by Biblical Christian standards there is no grounds for divorce. Except as Moses permitted, for hardness of hearts. You can be assured there are much deeper wounds in this mans wife heart than just the job or the move. Be a true friend tell him he is making a very serious error, perhaps you will save broken people from braking up. I kwow of what I speak. I moved my family more than 22 times! My wife and children suffered and endured so much. I am fortunate and highly blessed to have my wife and family! My adult children have openly told me how so many moves cause them so many painful hurts and problems. Not many wives would have stayed with a demanding, stupid, insensitive man that I once was. My wife is an unusually strong Christian, she trusted in the Lord not me. We had some very serious problems that took us to the very brink of divorce. Thank the Lord He disciplined me with the most loving, excruciating painfull eperience I have ever endured. My Lord Jesus resucued me and helped me become the husband and dad I needed to become. To this day I am still being taught to be a better husband and dad, and grandpa. justme |