25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
We are separated to God
John 17:17 AV 1873
17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Hebrews 13:12 AV 1873
12Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
1 Peter 1:2 AV 1873
2elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
We are separated from the World System
1 John 2:15–17 AV 1873
15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Ephesians 5:11 AV 1873
11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
2 Thessalonians 3:6 AV 1873
6Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
Titus 2:12 AV 1873
12teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
We are heavenly minded so we can be impactful on earth
Romans 12:1–2 AV 1873
1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Romans 10:19 AV 1873
19But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
Romans 11:11 AV 1873
11I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
