Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Paul wrote to the Ephesian church about intermingling with those who are openly sinning by telling them “do not become partners with them for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. What Does Light and Darkness Have in Common?

This is reflected in many of the Scriptures in the Bible but with different meaning like in Amos 3:3 where it says “Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?” If the two didn’t walk together then they would laboriously work and it would be unproductive and exceedingly tedious. In other words, it was unwise to yoke an ox and a horse or a young ox with one that is very old because they would not walk together at the same time and one would pull more of the load than the other. If animals were not matched correctly the work would not be efficiently done and the results would be almost futile.

Not surprisingly, the word yoke is associated with “servitude” but it could also mean indentured or enslaved too because God told Jeremiah that “any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the Lord” (Jer 27:11). Yokes were used to fasten two animals together, often Oxen, to pull carts, wagons, plows, or used to even pull tree stumps out. What does the term “unequally yoked” mean? What does this have to do with believers in the church? Ancient Yokes

Scripture about being unequally yoked