10 Bible Verses about Abandoning Things
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The next day as we were being violently storm-tossed, they began to throw the cargo overboard;
and on the third day they threw the ship's tackle overboard with their own hands.
When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship by throwing out the wheat into the sea.
leave your gift there before the altar, and go. First be reconciled to your brother; and then come and offer your gift.
What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains in search of the one that went astray?
"What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?
So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that tied the rudders; then hoisting the foresail to the wind they made for the beach.
Then the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city, and said to the people,
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- Abandoning (18 instances)