Bible Verses About Separation

Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.

The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

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.

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.

Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.

Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

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

And he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

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.

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

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.

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the Lord:

And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

So Paul departed from among them.

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.