Unequal Yoke

Never be yoked to one who refuses the yoke of Christ.

Anonymous

When husbands and wives are well yoked, how light their load becomes! John Ploughman’s Pictures, Page 92

Charles Spurgeon

Desertion is discussed in Scripture only in reference to an unequally yoked marriage.

June Hunt

2116Let me admonish you young people not to be unequally yoked together. Marriage without the fear of God is a fearful mistake. Those ill-assorted unions between believers and unbelievers rob our churches of more members than any other popular delinquency I know of. Seldom—I might almost say never—do I meet with a woman professing godliness who becomes joined in wedlock to a man of the world but that she goes away. She ceases to follow Jesus, and we hear no more of her. I counsel every young man or woman that chooses to be unequally yoked, that you communicate your intention to your minister and renounce your membership in the church before you seal your vows. Give up all profession of religion voluntarily. Do not wait to be excommunicated. Do not sneak away without giving an account of yourself. You had better count the cost and pay the price of your own presumption.—50.605, 606

Charles Spurgeon

When Jesus says, “You’re already yoked; you need a new yoke,”

Timothy Keller

That is, whatever you have yoked yourself to, you can’t get away from. You’re enslaved to it. You’re bound to it.

Timothy Keller

What have you decided to live for? You have to live for something, and whatever you decide to live for you’re yoked to. You’re not free anymore. You have to have it.

Timothy Keller

Jesus says we all have this weariness of soul. Secondly he says we all have something else we’ve yoked ourselves to in order to deal with that weariness, in order to deal with that restlessness, in order, in a sense, to prove ourselves. Yet it doesn’t work. We’re more burdened.

Timothy Keller

To take Christ’s yoke means to submit yourself to the authority of Christ. It means to put yourself under His rule, to join yourself together with Him. He is inviting men to put their shoulders into a new yoke, a new yoke in which He is the yoke mate. And He promises that, as they submit to His authority and are yoked with Him, they will find rest unto their souls.

J. Dwight Pentecost

It’s always the case that when we reject the light yoke of God’s will, we end up wearing a heavier yoke of our own making.

Warren W. Wiersbe

Mismated translates a word meaning “yoked with another of a different kind.

Roger L. Omanson; John Ellington

He doesn’t really mean, “You don’t have a yoke; now take on a yoke.” He says, “Take my yoke upon you …” That means you already have one.

Timothy Keller

We hate the idea of someone who has rights over us. We hate the idea of a king who has a yoke on us, who says, “You belong to me. You are not your own.

Timothy Keller