In Love With A Demon: What Does the Holy Bible Mean By Not Being Unequally Yoked?

"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" (2 Corinthians 6:14)

Question: What does it mean to be unequally yoked - a phrase the apostle Paul used in the Holy Bible's verse shown above?

Answer: Being unequally yoked means that you, for example, as a Christian are entangled in a mismatched relationship with a nonbeliever in Jesus Christ. Like having sympathy for the devil.

Whereas working in unison would normally produce optimal results, the unequal yoke puts a strain on the goals, tasks, and the God-intended purpose of the relationship.

What Is a Yoke?

In agricultural societies and settings, farm animals working together for plowing or pulling a load for example are placed side-by-side using a yoke - a harness usually made of wood that fits around the animals' necks so that they can work together and their combined efforts can make tasks easier, faster and more efficient.

ABOVE: A yoke of oxen from a working 18th-century style farm at Williamsburg, Virginia.

In the Holy Bible's Book of 2 Corinthians, Paul used the phrase "unequally yoked" in referencing a verse from the Old Testament - a verse that cautions against pairing an ox with a donkey (Deuteronomy 22:10).

Farmers knew that it was not efficient to unequally yoke working animals because one might be a drag on the other.

In a Christian's life the drag could be on your Holy Spirit, your prayer life, your Bible study, your soberness and-or raising children in the way they should go, so that when they are old they will not depart from it.

If a Christian is yoked with an atheist for example, then one can imagine the amount of stress, tension and issues that will eventually arise.

No need to have sympathy for the devil.

Try your best not to be unequally yoked beloved.