Thematic Bible: Pharisaic separation condemned


Thematic Bible



I will destine you for the sword,
And all of you will bow down to the slaughter.
Because I called, but you did not answer;
I spoke, but you did not hear.
And you did evil in My sight
And chose that in which I did not delight.”

Because they hated knowledge
And did not choose the fear of the Lord.

“But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man;
He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog’s neck;
He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood;
He who burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol.
As they have chosen their own ways,
And their soul delights in their abominations,

But the governor said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas.”


Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

So it will be at the end of the age; the angels will come forth and take out the wicked from among the righteous,




I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.

And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’



Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother who leads an unruly life and not according to the tradition which you received from us.


and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.


But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting;


You are therefore to make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.

and so as to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,

Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the edible creature and the creature which is not to be eaten.


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