12 Bible Verses about Separation From God
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But your iniquities have built barriers
between you and your God,
and your sins have made Him hide His face from you
so that He does not listen.
Be warned, Jerusalem,
or I will turn away from you;
I will make you a desolation,
a land without inhabitants.
so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their hearts. They are all estranged from Me because of their idols.
For when anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside in Israel separates himself from Me, setting up idols in his heart and putting a sinful stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I, Yahweh, will answer him Myself.
Take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign for the house of Israel.
Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,
Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you—if you remain in His kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.
For I could almost wish to be cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood.
At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction from the Lord’s presence and from His glorious strength
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between you and your God,
and your sins have made Him hide His face from you
so that He does not listen.
Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”
Israel has sinned. They have violated My covenant that I appointed for them. They have taken some of what was set apart. They have stolen, deceived, and put [the things] with their own belongings. This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs [and run] from their enemies, because they have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from you what is set apart.
the Lord would not have listened.
striving to take hold of You.
For You have hidden Your face from us
and made us melt because of
Error » Sin's penalty » Separation from God
between you and your God,
and your sins have made Him hide His face from you
so that He does not listen.
Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”
Israel has sinned. They have violated My covenant that I appointed for them. They have taken some of what was set apart. They have stolen, deceived, and put [the things] with their own belongings. This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs [and run] from their enemies, because they have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from you what is set apart.
the Lord would not have listened.
striving to take hold of You.
For You have hidden Your face from us
and made us melt because of
Sin » Penalty for » Separation from God
between you and your God,
and your sins have made Him hide His face from you
so that He does not listen.
Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”
Israel has sinned. They have violated My covenant that I appointed for them. They have taken some of what was set apart. They have stolen, deceived, and put [the things] with their own belongings. This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs [and run] from their enemies, because they have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from you what is set apart.
the Lord would not have listened.
striving to take hold of You.
For You have hidden Your face from us
and made us melt because of
Sins » Penalty » Separation from God
between you and your God,
and your sins have made Him hide His face from you
so that He does not listen.
Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”
Israel has sinned. They have violated My covenant that I appointed for them. They have taken some of what was set apart. They have stolen, deceived, and put [the things] with their own belongings. This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs [and run] from their enemies, because they have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from you what is set apart.
the Lord would not have listened.
striving to take hold of You.
For You have hidden Your face from us
and made us melt because of
Transgression » Sin's penalty » Separation from God
between you and your God,
and your sins have made Him hide His face from you
so that He does not listen.
Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”
Israel has sinned. They have violated My covenant that I appointed for them. They have taken some of what was set apart. They have stolen, deceived, and put [the things] with their own belongings. This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs [and run] from their enemies, because they have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from you what is set apart.
the Lord would not have listened.
striving to take hold of You.
For You have hidden Your face from us
and made us melt because of
