27 Bible Verses about Far Be It!

Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"

And Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! If I knew that it was determined by my father that harm should come to you, would I not tell you?"

They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my servant. But as for you, go up in peace to your father."

Then the people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day." So the people ransomed Jonathan, so that he did not die.

And he said to him, "Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. And why should my father hide this from me? It is not so."

Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

The LORD forbid that I should put out my hand against the LORD's anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go."

Joab answered, "Far be it from me, far be it, that I should swallow up or destroy!

But Naboth said to Ahab, "The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers."

"Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they said, "Surely not!"

By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."

By no means! For then how could God judge the world?

By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."

Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.

What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!

Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.

But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

But Peter said, "By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."

But I said, 'By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'

What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,