What does the Bible say about unbeliever?

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The Bible teaches that unbelief is a serious spiritual condition: apart from faith in Christ, people remain under condemnation, darkened in understanding, and unable to please God. John 3:18 grounds salvation in trusting the Son, while 2 Corinthians 4:4 and Ephesians 4:18 describe the blindness and alienation sin produces. Yet believers are called to live faithfully among unbelieving family members, seeking their good and bearing witness to Christ, as 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 teaches. Christians must not bind themselves to partnerships that compromise obedience to God, according to 2 Corinthians 6:14, but should respond with humility, prayer, and hope in God’s saving grace.

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  • John 3:18

    He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

  • 1 Corinthians 7:12-16

    [12] But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. [13] The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband. [14] For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now are they holy. [15] Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace. [16] For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

  • 2 Corinthians 4:4

    in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

  • 1 Timothy 5:8

    But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

  • Ephesians 4:18

    being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

  • 1 Corinthians 6:14

    Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

  • Revelation 21:8

    But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

  • Luke 12:46

    then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

  • Hebrews 3:12

    Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

  • 2 Corinthians 6:14

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

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