10 Bible Verses about Abandoning Things

The man threw off his cloak, sprang to his feet, and came to Jesus.

And as we were being terribly battered by the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard,

and on the third day with their own hands they threw the ship's tackling overboard.

After eating a hearty meal, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the wheat overboard.

"leave there your gift before the altar, and go and make friends with your brother, first of all; then come and offer your gift.

They seized him, but he left the linen sheet and fled away naked.

"How does it seem to you, when a man has a hundred sheep and loses one of them? Will he not leave the ninety and nine on the hills, to go and search for the one that has strayed?

"Which one of you men, if he has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?

They cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, and unloosing at the same time the ropes that tied the rudders, they hoisted the foresail to the breeze, and headed for the beach.

Then the woman left her water-jar, and went away into the city and began saying to the people.