Thematic Bible: Pharisaic separation condemned


Thematic Bible



And I have numbered you for the sword, And all of you for slaughter bow down, Because I called, and ye have not answered, I have spoken, and ye have not hearkened, And ye do the evil thing in Mine eyes, And on that which I desired not -- fixed.

Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

Whoso slaughtereth the ox smiteth a man, Whoso sacrificeth the lamb beheadeth a dog, Whoso is bringing up a present -- The blood of a sow, Whoso is making mention of frankincense, Is blessing iniquity. Yea, they have fixed on their own ways, And in their abominations their soul hath delighted.

and the governor answering said to them, 'Which of the two will ye that I shall release to you?' And they said, 'Barabbas.'


suffer both to grow together till the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the darnel, and bind it in bundles, to burn it, and the wheat gather up into my storehouse.'

so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous,




'I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;

and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.



And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,


wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;


and now, I did write to you not to keep company with him, if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;

And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

if any one doth come unto you, and this teaching doth not bear, receive him not into the house, and say not to him, 'Hail!'


And ye have made separation between the pure beasts and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the pure, and ye do not make yourselves abominable by beast or by fowl, or by anything which creepeth on the ground which I have separated to you for unclean;

so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure;

Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst.

to make separation between the unclean and the pure, and between the beast that is eaten, and the beast that is not eaten.'