16 Bible Verses about People Parting

Is not the entire land before you? Please separate [yourself] from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or if you choose the right, then I will go to the left.”

Then Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and he traveled east. So they separated from each other.

The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had left him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are standing, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

and Mizpah (watchtower), for Laban said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent from one another.

Now Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the members of his household, and his livestock and all his cattle and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and he went to a land away from his brother Jacob.

So the servants served Joseph by himself [in honor of his rank], and his brothers by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because [according to custom] the Egyptians could not eat food with the Hebrews, for that is loathsome to the Egyptians.

People cried to them, “Go away! Unclean!
Depart! Depart! Do not touch!”
So they fled, then they wandered [as fugitives];
People among the nations said,
“They shall not stay here any longer with us.”

While He was blessing them, He left them and was taken up into heaven.

And it became such a sharp disagreement that they separated from one another, and Barnabas took [John] Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus.

But to the married [believers] I give instructions—not I, but the Lord—that the wife is not to separate from her husband,

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Therefore, what God has united and joined together, man must not separate [by divorce].”

He who [willfully] separates himself [from God and man] seeks his own desire,
He quarrels against all sound wisdom.

Then Moses said, “You are correct; I will never see your face again!”

“And now, listen carefully: I know that none of you, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will see me again.

Perhaps it was for this reason that he was separated from you for a while, so that you would have him back forever,