Bible Verses About Separation of Good and Bad

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.

But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)