1 Corinthians 7:27

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Ver. 27. Art thou bound to a wife?] A manifest metaphor from oxen. Hence we call them yoke fellows:

" Quam male inaequales veniunt ad aratra iuvenci;

Tam premitur magno, &c. " (Ovid. Epist.)

Dare not to yoke thyself with any untamed heifer that bears not Christ's yoke.