58 Scriptures On Separation

The Bible discusses the concept of separation in various contexts, including separation from sin, unbelievers, and for the sake of spiritual purity. Here are 58 biblical scriptures that touch on different aspects of separation:

1. Genesis 2:24 – “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
2. Exodus 33:16 – “For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?”
3. Leviticus 20:24 – “But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.”
4. Leviticus 20:26 – “You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.”
5. Numbers 16:21 – “Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.”
6. Deuteronomy 7:3-4 – “You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods.”
7. Joshua 23:12-13 – “For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you, know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you.”
8. Ruth 1:16-17 – “But Ruth said, ‘Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.'”
9. Ezra 10:11 – “Now then make confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”
10. Nehemiah 9:2 – “And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.”
11. Nehemiah 13:3 – “As soon as the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent.”
12. Psalms 1:1 – “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers.”
13. Proverbs 4:14-15 – “Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.”
14. Isaiah 52:11 – “Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the Lord.”
15. Jeremiah 15:17 – “I did not sit in the company of revelers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because your hand was upon me, for you had filled me with indignation.”
16. Ezekiel 44:23 – “They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.”
17. Amos 3:3 – “Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?”
18. Matthew 10:34-36 – “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
19. Luke 12:51-53 – “Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.”
20. John 15:19 – “If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”
21. Acts 2:40 – “And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, ‘Save yourselves from this crooked generation.'”
22. Romans 1:1 – “Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.”
23. Romans 12:2 – “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
24. 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 – “I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.”
25. 1 Corinthians 6:17 – “But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.”
26. 1 Corinthians 7:15 – “But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.”
27. 2 Corinthians 6:14-17 – “Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?”
28. Galatians 1:15-16 – “But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone.”
29. Ephesians 5:11 – “Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.”
30. Philippians 2:15 – “That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.”
31. Colossians 3:5 – “Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.”
32. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 – “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor.”
33. 1 Thessalonians 5:22 – “Abstain from every form of evil.”
34. 2 Thessalonians 3:6 – “Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.”
35. 1 Timothy 5:22 – “Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.”
36. 2 Timothy 2:19 – “But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: ‘The Lord knows those who are his,’ and, ‘Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.'”
37. 2 Timothy 2:21 – “Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.”
38. Hebrews 7:26 – “For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.”
39. James 1:27 – “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.”
40. James 4:4 – “You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
41. 1 Peter 1:14-16 – “As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct.”
42. ​​1 Peter 2:9 – “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”
43. 1 Peter 2:11 – “Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.”
44. 1 John 2:15-17 – “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
45. 2 John 1:10-11 – “If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.”
46. Revelation 18:4 – “Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, ‘Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues.'”
47. Matthew 19:29 – “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.”
48. Luke 14:33 – “So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.”
49. Acts 13:2 – “While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, ‘Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.'”
50. Romans 8:35 – “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?”
51. 1 Corinthians 6:18 – “Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.”
52. Ephesians 5:7 – “Therefore do not become partners with them.”
53. 2 Timothy 3:5 – “Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.”
54. Hebrews 12:14 – “Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.”
55. James 5:20 – “Let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.”
56. 1 Peter 4:3-4 – “For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.”
57. 2 Peter 2:20-22 – “For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.”
58. Revelation 2:10 – “Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.”