7 Bible Verses about Estrangement

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak lies go astray from birth.

Thus says the Lord,
“What injustice did your fathers find in Me,
That they went far from Me
And walked after emptiness and became empty?

in order to lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel who are estranged from Me through all their idols.”’

But the Levites who went far from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, shall bear the punishment for their iniquity.

‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.

remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;