Knowing The Word in 2 Corinthians 6:14, Unequally Yoked

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

Paul is not talking about marriage or dating! He is talking about attendance at idol feasts and pagan temple rituals and the Corinthians joining with the false apostles. We as Christians are not to enter into voluntary partnerships or associations where others would significantly influence the direction and outcome of our moral decisions and spiritual activities. Paul has dealt with the internal obstacles to reconciliation. Now he turns to some external, presenting factors. He will move from lesser to greater problems.

O my Savior,

let me not fall by little and little,

or think myself able to bear

the indulgence of any known sin

because it seems so insignificant.

Keep me from sinful beginnings,

lest they lead me onto sorrowful endings.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834-1892