26 Bible Verses about Abandoning Things

A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away.

'And now, fear ye Jehovah, and serve Him, in perfection and in truth, and turn aside the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye Jehovah;

and, now, turn aside the gods of the stranger which are in your midst, and incline your heart unto Jehovah, God of Israel.'

And they turn aside the gods of the stranger out of their midst, and serve Jehovah, and His soul is grieved with the misery of Israel.

and she catcheth him by his garment, saying, 'Lie with me;' and he leaveth his garment in her hand, and fleeth, and goeth without.

And it cometh to pass when she seeth that he hath left his garment in her hand, and fleeth without,

and it cometh to pass, when he heareth that I have lifted up my voice and call, that he leaveth his garment near me, and fleeth, and goeth without.'

and it cometh to pass, when I lift my voice and call, that he leaveth his garment near me, and fleeth without.'

and he, having cast away his garment, having risen, did come unto Jesus.

And they go after them unto the Jordan, and lo, all the way is full of garments and vessels that the Aramaeans have cast away in their haste, and the messengers turn back and declare to the king.

And we, being exceedingly tempest-tossed, the succeeding day they were making a clearing,

and on the third day with our own hands the tackling of the ship we cast out,

and having eaten sufficient nourishment, they were lightening the ship, casting forth the wheat into the sea.

And cut him off do strangers, The terrible of nations, and they leave him, On the mountains and in all valleys have his thin shoots fallen, And broken are his boughs at all streams of the land, And go down from his shade do all peoples of the land, and they leave him.

Therefore, O mountains of Israel, Hear a word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus said the Lord Jehovah, to mountains, and to hills, To streams, and to valleys, And to wastes that are desolate, And to cities that are forsaken, That have been for a prey, And for a scorn, to the remnant of the nations who are round about.

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go -- first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.

and he, having left the linen cloth, did flee from them naked.

What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not -- having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains -- seek that which is gone astray?

'What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?

and the anchors having taken up, they were committing it to the sea, at the same time -- having loosed the bands of the rudders, and having hoisted up the mainsail to the wind -- they were making for the shore,

And they forsake there their idols, and David and his men lift them up.

And they leave there their gods, and David speaketh, and they are burnt with fire.

The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and saith to the men,

For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.

And thou hast let go -- even through thyself, Of thine inheritance that I gave to thee, And I have caused thee to serve thine enemies, In a land that thou hast not known, For a fire ye have kindled in Mine anger, Unto the age it doth burn.

Doth snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Failed are the cold strange waters that flow?