26 Bible Verses about Abandoning Things

a time to get and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to throw away.

Honor Jehovah and serve him sincerely and in truth. Get rid of the gods that your ancestors used to worship in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve only Jehovah.

Remove the foreign gods you have. He demanded: Pledge your loyalty to Jehovah, the God of Israel.

So they removed the foreign gods and worshiped Jehovah. He could bear the distress of Israel no longer.

She grabbed him by his coat and said: Come to bed with me! But he ran outside and left his coat in her hand.

When she realized that he had gone but had left his coat behind,

When he heard me scream, he ran out of the house, leaving his coat with me.

When I screamed for help, he left his coat and ran out of the house.

Setting aside his garment, he sprang up, and came to Jesus.

The men went to the Jordan. Along the road they saw the clothes and equipment that the Syrians had abandoned as they fled. Then they returned and reported to the king.

The violent storm continued. The next day they began to throw some of the ship's cargo overboard.

The following day they threw part of the ship's equipment overboard.

When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.

Alien tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from its shade and left it.

'Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. The Lord Jehovah says to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities that have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations that are round about,

leave your gift at the altar and go make peace with your brother. Then return and make your offering.

But they got a hold of the linen cloth and he fled naked.

What do you think? A man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone wandering away. Will he leave the ninety-nine and go in search of the wandering one?

If you have a hundred sheep and lose one of them, what do you do? You leave the other ninety-nine sheep in the pasture and go looking for the one you lost until you find it.

They threw the anchors overboard and left them in the sea. At the same time they untied the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach.

The Philistines left their idols there. David and his men carried them all away.

The Philistines abandoned their gods. So David gave orders to burn them in the fire.

The woman left her water pot and went to the city. She spoke to the men.

One can see that wise people die, that foolish and stupid people meet the same end. They leave their wealth to others.

You will lose the inheritance that I gave you. I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you have not heard of. I will do this because you have stirred up the fire of my anger. It will burn for a very long time.

Does the snow of Lebanon forsake the rock of the open country? Or is the cold flowing water from a foreign land ever snatched away?