'Apart' in the Bible

Blessed [joyful, nourished by God’s goodness] are you who hunger now [for righteousness, actively seeking right standing with God], for you will be [completely] satisfied. Blessed [forgiven, refreshed by God’s grace] are you who weep now [over your sins and repent], for you will laugh [when the burden of sin is lifted].

Blessed [morally courageous and spiritually alive with life-joy in God’s goodness] are you when people hate you, and exclude you [from their fellowship], and insult you, and scorn your name as evil because of [your association with] the Son of Man.

Blessed [joyful, spiritually favored] is he who does not take offense at Me.”

For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bands apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.

And the apostles having returned related to him whatever they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart into a desert place of a city called Bethsaida.

And it came to pass, as he was praying apart, the disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Who do the multitudes say that I am?

And He turned towards His disciples and said to them apart, "Blessed are the eyes which see what you see!

So he consented, and began seeking a good opportunity to betray Him to them apart from the crowd.

[because] [the light] of the sun failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn apart [down] the middle.

All things were created through Him,and apart from Him not one thing was createdthat has been created.

do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.

And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.

So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it apart, but cast lots for it, [to see] whose it will be," so that the scripture would be fulfilled that says, "They divided my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots." Thus the soldiers did these [things].

and the napkin that was upon his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but apart, having been folded up, in one place;

As they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work I have called them to.”

When the dispute became violent, the commander feared that Paul might be torn apart by them and ordered the troops to go down, rescue him from them, and bring him into the barracks.

And the chiliarch having taken him by the hand, and having gone apart in private, inquired, What is it that thou hast to report to me?

and having gone apart, they spoke to one another saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.

From: Paul, a servant of Jesus the Messiah, called to be an apostle and set apart for God's gospel,

For all who have sinned apart from the Law will also perish apart from the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law.

But now, apart from the law, God’s righteousness has been revealed—attested by the Law and the Prophets

For we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Likewise, David also speaks of the blessing of the man God credits righteousness to apart from works:

And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead.

Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life

How then shall they call upon him in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe on him of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?

But as to you, brethren, I am convinced-- yes, I Paul am convinced--that, even apart from my teaching, you are already full of goodness of heart, and enriched with complete Christian knowledge, and are also competent to instruct one another.

For who regards you as superior or what sets you apart as special? What do you have that you did not receive [from another]? And if in fact you received it [from God or someone else], why do you boast as if you had not received it [but had gained it by yourself]?

Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,

And such were some of you [before you believed]. But you were washed [by the atoning sacrifice of Christ], you were sanctified [set apart for God, and made holy], you were justified [declared free of guilt] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God [the source of the believer’s new life and changed behavior].

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified [that is, he receives the blessings granted] through his [Christian] wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be [ceremonially] unclean, but as it is they are holy.

and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or the virgin is concerned about the matters of the Lord, how to be holy and set apart both in body and in spirit; but a married woman is concerned about worldly things, how she may please her husband.

And all [of them] were baptized into Moses [into his safekeeping as their leader] in the cloud and in the sea;

but neither is a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,

apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies.

And I know how such a man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows—

But when God, who from my birth set me apart and called me by His grace, was pleased

just as [in His love] He chose us in Christ [actually selected us for Himself as His own] before the foundation of the world, so that we would be holy [that is, consecrated, set apart for Him, purpose-driven] and blameless in His sight. In love

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens [outsiders without rights of citizenship], but you are fellow citizens with the saints (God’s people), and are [members] of God’s household,

For this is the will of God, that you be sanctified [separated and set apart from sin]: that you abstain and back away from sexual immorality;

I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;

So if anyone purifies himself from anything dishonorable, he will be a special instrument, set apart, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

and apart from thy mind I willed to do nothing, that as of necessity thy good deed may not be, but of willingness,

but we see Jesus, for a short [time] made lower than the angels, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that apart from God he might taste death on behalf of everyone.

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, [thoughtfully and attentively] consider the Apostle and High Priest whom we confessed [as ours when we accepted Him as Savior], namely, Jesus;

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;

and apart from all controversy, the less by the better is blessed --

And inasmuch as it is not apart from oath, (for those indeed apart from oath are become priests,

We need such a high priest one who is holy, innocent, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

and into the second, once in the year, only the chief priest, not apart from blood, which he doth offer for himself and the errors of the people,

whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,

and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him -- to salvation!

any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.

and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

Therefore Jesus also suffered and died outside the [city] gate so that He might sanctify and set apart for God as holy the people [who believe] through [the shedding of] His own blood.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will show thee my faith.

And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead?

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ.May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Married women, in the same way, be submissive to your husbands, so that even if some of them disbelieve the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over by the daily life of their wives, after watching your daily life--

but honor the Messiah as Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to give a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.

Jude, a bond-servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, [writes this letter],To those who are the called (God’s chosen ones, the elect), dearly loved by God the Father, and kept [secure and set apart] for Jesus Christ:

these are those setting themselves apart, natural men, the Spirit not having.

The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

The grace of the Lord Jesus (the Christ, the Messiah) be with all [the saints—all believers, those set apart for God]. Amen.