Being unequally yoked with unbelievers turns our hearts away. God's command to Solomon to not associate with foreign women was not because of their race, but because of their faith.

Bible Reading: 1 Kings 11-15

Verse of the day: 1 Kings 11:1–3, "Now King Solomon loved many foreign women . . . from the nations of which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, "You shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate with you; they will certainly turn your heart away to follow their gods." . . . And his wives turned his heart away."

Word of the day: Foreign. It is the Hebrew word: נָכְרִי (nok-ree').