What is the true definition of being unequally yoked with someone?

If I marry someone from a different christian denomination than mine, does this mean that I am unequally yoked in Christ? Is this a sin? If so why?What is the true definition of being unequally yoked with someone?
The origin of the phrase comes from having two oxen of unequal strength pulling a plow. The stronger one will dominate the other and the row of the plow won't be straight.





When you apply this to marriage, the inequality would be if one person dominated the other, instead of it being a partnership with each person complementing the other's strengths.





As far as different denominations go, that is a matter for the couple to discuss during their courtship. It has nothing to do with being unequal.What is the true definition of being unequally yoked with someone?
Being unequally yoked can come in different forms. When two people of different Christian denominations get together they can be unequally yoked. This could cost some troubles as they have different beliefs. When a Christian gets involved with a non-Christian is probably the main example of this. The beliefs are extremely different and there will be problems. The non-Christian may not respect the other person's religion etc. Also, something that many people do not assume to exemplify being unequally yoked, two people in the SAME denomination can be unequally yoked. One could be more spiritually strong while the other may believe, but not practice. This is something that is prevalent in Christian churches
2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?





From the same as G2218; a couple, that is, a team (of oxen yoked together) or brace (of birds tied together): - yoke, pair.





Unequally yoked means not to hang around unrighteous people. If you are a Born Again Christian, you do not hang around non believers for their belief can pull you down to their level.





1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Being unequally yoked is when a believer and nonbeliever or differing faiths like Christian with muslim get married. It's not a sin but God does not want us to do it because of the problems that will arise when the children come along. While a couple may not have any problems themselves with their differing beliefs, when children enter the mix everything changes and things that weren't important before are now extremely important.


Marrying someone of a different denomination is not the same and ';should not be a problem';, BUT for a Baptist and Catholic there can be major problems. People get hung up on incidentals like baptism whether one should dunk or sprinkle. I personally don't believe that God cares one way or the other He is concerned about the heart not dunking or sprinkling it is a symbol and does not have anything to do with salvation it is an act of obedience and public witness. God calls us the body for a reason we are not supposed to be cookie cutter replicas of each other we are supposed to be different in some of the minor things. Think about your body does the eye lid do the same thing as a toenail ? Do they look alike? NO. Neither are the churches we need to come together on the main things like salvation, Jesus as son of God, died on a cross and raised 3 days later, and now sets at the right hand of God, and Jesus is the only way to God and let the other stuff go. So no marrying someone of a different denomination is not a sin and if someone says it is ask them to give you chapter and verse.














2Co 6:14 -


Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
Marriage is not the issue in that passage. It is not mentioned in 2 Cor 6 at all, but it is by application.. The issue is holiness and worldliness. Christians are not be be partakers of the world's evils. However in this day Christians function in the world as well as anyone does, and think nothing is wrong with that. We have the same divorce rate as the world has, we listen to the same music, and right in our churches, we dress the same, have the same goals, seek the same education, and if someone never told you they were a Christian, you would never know.
2 Corinthians 6:14-16: “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?”


while this scripture doesn't mention marriage it does help us understand how he would feel about us being married to someone of another religion
Jesus said to be no part of the world, do you realize what that means?





Consider God's instructions to his people the Jews.


(Deuteronomy 29:17-18) . . .And YOU used to see their disgusting things and their dungy idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, that were with them;) 18 that there may not be among YOU a man or a woman or a family or a tribe whose heart is turning today away from Jehovah our God to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there may not be among YOU a root bearing the fruit of a poisonous plant and wormwood. . .





(John 17:14) . . .I have given your word to them, but the world has hated them, because they are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world.
True Christianity has no denomination. The Gospel of Christ is for everyone.
It mean,s a Christian and a sinner,,or a Jew and Christian


those of a different View,
Only if the person is a non-believer.
Marry a fat girl and the Yolk on you.