Separate and Clean

To be separate and clean, we must...

Come Out from Among Them

(; ; ; ).

1 Corinthians 6:17 NKJV

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

Isaiah 52:11 NKJV

Depart! Depart! Go out from there, Touch no unclean thing; Go out from the midst of her, Be clean, You who bear the vessels of the Lord.

Revelation 18:4 NKJV

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.

Numbers 33:55–56 NKJV

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell. Moreover it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.’ ”

Stay Out from Among Them

- “be separate” (; ; ; ).

1 Corinthians 6:17 NKJV

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

2 Corinthians 6:17 NKJV

Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.”

Matthew 13:47–50 NKJV

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some of every kind, which, when it was full, they drew to shore; and they sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but threw the bad away. So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come forth, separate the wicked from among the just, and cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”

Matthew 25:32 NKJV

All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.

Romans 1:1 NKJV

Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God

Stay Away from Being Among Them

- “Do not touch” - “Have no close connection with an idolater, or an unholy person. Be pure; and feel that you belong to a community that is under its own laws, and that is to be distinguished in moral purity from all the rest of the world.” Barnes, A. (1884–1885). Notes on the New Testament: II Corinthians & Galatians. (R. Frew, Ed.) (p. 158). London: Blackie & Son.

Stay Clean!

- “let us cleans ourselves” ().

2 Corinthians 7:1 NKJV

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Being separate and clean will be blessed by...

Being acceptable to God

() - “I will receive you.”

2 Corinthians 6:17 NKJV

Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.”

Being children of God

() - “I will be a Father to you” (cf. ).

2 Corinthians 6:18 NKJV

“I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Galatians 3:26–27 NKJV

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Being holy to God

() - “perfecting holiness”

2 Corinthians 7:1 NKJV

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.