27 Bible Verses about Far Be It!

Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn't I tell you that?"

They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."

The people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day!" So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.

He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so."

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go."

Joab answered, "Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

Naboth said to Ahab, "May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!"

"Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."

May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

But far be it from me to 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, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."

But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.