26 Bible Verses about Abandoning Things
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A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away;
And now fear Jehovah and serve him in perfectness and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river, and in Egypt; and serve Jehovah.
Now therefore put away the strange gods that are among you, and incline your heart unto Jehovah the God of Israel.
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and he became indignant over the misery of Israel.
Then she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me! But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran out.
And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled forth,
and it came to pass when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled and went out.
and it came to pass as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled forth.
And they went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the way was full of garments and materials, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.
But the storm being extremely violent on us, on the next day they threw cargo overboard,
and on the third day with their own hands they cast away the ship furniture.
And having satisfied themselves with food, they lightened the ship, casting out the wheat into the sea.
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off and have left him; upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken in all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the water-courses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and a derision to the remnant of the nations that are round about,
leave there thy gift before the altar, and first go, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
What think ye? If a certain man should have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not, leaving the ninety and nine on the mountains, go and seek the one that has gone astray?
What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
and, having cast off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the lashings of the rudders, and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made for the strand.
And they left their images there, and David and his men took them away.
And they left their gods there; and David commanded, and they were burned with fire.
The woman then left her waterpot and went away into the city, and says to the men,
For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others.
And of thyself thou shalt let go thine inheritance which I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in a land that thou knowest not; for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, it shall burn for ever.
Shall the snow of Lebanon cease from the rock of the field? Shall the cool flowing waters coming from afar be dried up?
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- Abandoning (18 instances)