27 Bible Verses about Far Be It!

Far be it from you to do such a thing -- to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?"

Jonathan said, "Far be it from you to suggest this! If I were at all aware that my father had decided to harm you, wouldn't I tell you about it?"

They answered him, "Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

But Joseph said, "Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found will become my slave, but the rest of you may go back to your father in peace."

But the army said to Saul, "Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today." So the army rescued Jonathan from death.

Jonathan said to him, "By no means are you going to die! My father does nothing large or small without making me aware of it. Why would my father hide this matter from me? It just won't happen!"

I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

But may the Lord prevent me from extending my hand against the Lord's chosen one! Now take the spear by Saul's head and the jug of water, and let's get out of here!"

Joab answered, "Get serious! I don't want to swallow up or destroy anything!

But Naboth replied to Ahab, "The Lord forbid that I should sell you my ancestral inheritance."

"Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil.

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "May this never happen!"

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: "so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged."

Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

But Peter said, "Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!"

But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!'

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,