31 Bible Verses about goodbyes

And another also said, I will follow thee, Lord, but first allow me to bid adieu to those at my house.

but bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep the coming feast at Jerusalem; I will return to you again, if God will: and he sailed away from Ephesus.

Jehovah grant you that ye may find rest, each in the house of her husband. And she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice and wept.

And having said these things, he dismissed the assembly.

If any one come to you and bring not this doctrine, do not receive him into the house, and greet him not;

And having embraced one another, we went on board ship, and they returned home.

For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and I will follow thee. And he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to thee?

But another of his disciples said to him, Lord, suffer me first to go away and bury my father.

And they all wept sore; and falling upon the neck of Paul they ardently kissed him,

Thus then every one of you who forsakes not all that is his own cannot be my disciple.

and one from amongst you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled; but give not to them the needful things for the body, what is the profit?

And they lifted up their voice and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave to her.

And when, having got away from them, we at last sailed away, we came by a direct course to Cos, and on the morrow to Rhodes, and thence to Patara.

And in those days Peter, standing up in the midst of the brethren, said, (the crowd of names who were together was about a hundred and twenty,)

And, having dismissed them, he departed into the mountain to pray.

and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now thou hast acted foolishly.

I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother; but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.

The lad went, and David arose from the side of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times; and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a little while and ye shall see me, because I go away to the Father.

And Paul, having yet stayed there many days, took leave of the brethren and sailed thence to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn his head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow;

And Laban rose early in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban went and returned to his place.

earnestly desiring to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

But after the tumult had ceased, Paul having called the disciples to him and embraced them, went away to go to Macedonia.

But Jesus said to him, Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.

Salute all your leaders, and all the saints. They from Italy salute you.

And now I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and give to you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.

But from Miletus having sent to Ephesus, he called over to him the elders of the assembly.

But Jesus said to him, Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, but do thou go and announce the kingdom of God.

But when we had completed the days, we set out and took our journey, all of them accompanying us, with wives and children, till we were out of the city. And kneeling down upon the shore we prayed.