A perverse person ¹  spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends. ² 

The one who forgives ¹  an offense seeks ²  love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends. ³ 

“‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact ¹  a dead body. ² 

All ¹  the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

A king sitting on the throne to judge ¹  separates out ²  all evil with his eyes. ³ 

A wise king separates out ¹  the wicked; he turns the threshing wheel over them. ² 

For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally.

One who has isolated himself ¹  seeks his own desires; ²  he rejects ³  all sound judgment.

“‘All the days of the vow ¹  of his separation no razor may be used on his head ²  until the time ³  is fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lord. He will be holy, ⁴  and he must let ⁵  the locks of hair on his head grow long.

But if the unbeliever wants a divorce, let it take place. In these circumstances the brother or sister is not bound. ¹  God has called you in peace.

Wherever you die, I will die – and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me severely if I do not keep my promise! ¹  Only death will be able to separate me from you!” ² 

I also gave them my Sabbaths ¹  as a reminder of our relationship, ²  so that they would know that I, the Lord, sanctify them. ³ 

For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

So if someone cleanses himself of such behavior, ¹  he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.