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ALIENATE

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To alienate is to estrange, separate, or transfer away. Scripture applies it to marital estrangement, the diversion of property, and humanity’s separation from God.
Biblical Usage
It describes estrangement between husband and wife, diversion of property, and spiritual separation from God. In the New Testament it applies to the soul’s turning away from God.
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