Today and Friday, we feel two different questions about premarital pregnancies, one involving

a believer and an unbeliever, and another scenario involving two professing believers.

First, this one.

Does a premarital pregnancy nullify Paul's unequally-yoked prohibition?

The question arise from a listener named Patrick Apaster himself.

Hello, Pastor John.

Thank you for how this podcast serves me as a pastor.

Love that.

A young couple at my church is unmarried and they have a child together.

They're now living in a state of chastity apart.

The man is not a believer.

She is.

They plan to marry, though I have advised her not to marry him unless he becomes a believer,

based on Paul's words in 2 Corinthians 6, 14 to 18.

Categorically speaking, am I correct here or does the bringing of a child together into

the world override Paul's unequally-yoked principle?

Pastor John, what would you say about my pastoral instinct here?

I think Patrick's interpretation and instincts are correct.

And I would simply add a few passages of scripture and draw out some practical implications.

Patrick refers to 2 Corinthians 6, 14, do not be unequally-yoked with unbelievers.

Even more direct to this issue of marrying an unbeliever is Paul's instruction.

In 1 Corinthians 739, a wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives.

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