What does the Bible say about black and white marriage?

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• Leviticus 19:19 10 votes

  "'You shall keep my statutes. "'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals. "'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; "'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds of material.

• Galatians 3:28 9 votes

  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

• Acts 17:26 4 votes

  He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

• Numbers 12:1 4 votes

  Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

• Deuteronomy 7:3 4 votes

  neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take to your son.

• James 2:1-10 3 votes

  [1] My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. [2] For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your assembly, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in; [3] and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;" [4] haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? [5] Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? [6] But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts? [7] Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called? [8] However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well. [9] But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. [10] For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he has become guilty of all.

• 2 Corinthians 6:14 3 votes

  Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness?

• Leviticus 20:13 3 votes

  If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

• John 2:1-25 2 votes

  [1] The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there. [2] Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage. [3] When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine." [4] Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come." [5] His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it." [6] Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece. [7] Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." They filled them up to the brim. [8] He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." So they took it. [9] When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom, [10] and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!" [11] This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. [12] After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days. [13] The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. [14] He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. [15] He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables. [16] To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!" [17] His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up." [18] The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?" [19] Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." [20] The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?" [21] But he spoke of the temple of his body. [22] When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. [23] Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did. [24] But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone, [25] and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

• Nehemiah 13:23-27 2 votes

  [23] In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab: [24] and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. [25] I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. [26] Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin. [27] Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

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