27 Bible Verses about Far Be It!

Surely you would not do that! Would you slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked? Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Jonathan replied: Far be it from you! For if I should indeed learn my father decided to bring evil on you then would I not tell you about it?

They answered him: What do you mean, Sir, by talking like this? We swear that we have done no such thing.

He said: It is far from me that I should do this. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant. As for you, you go in peace to your father.

But the people said to Saul: Will Jonathan, who won this great victory for Israel, be put to death? No! We promise by the living Jehovah that he will not lose even a hair from his head. What he did today was done with God's help. So the people saved Jonathan from being put to death.

He said to him: It will not happen. You will not die! My father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. So why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!

I will not admit you are in the right. Until I die, I will not deny my integrity!

Jehovah forbid that I should try to harm the one Jehovah anointed to be king. Just take his spear and his water jar and go.

Joab answered: That is unthinkable! I do not wish to swallow it up or destroy it.

But Naboth said to Ahab, God forbid that I give you the heritage of my fathers.

Hear me, you who have sense, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

He will come and destroy the renters and will give the vineyard to others. When they heard it, they said, God forbid!

Certainly not! But let God be true, and every man false. It is written: So that you should be proved righteous in your words and should overcome when you are judged.

Not at all! For how will God judge the world?

God forbid. We died to sin! How could we any longer live in it?

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid!

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid! I had not known sin except through the law. For I had not known coveting except the law had said: You should not covet.

Did that which is good become death to me? God forbid! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good. This way sin might be shown to be sin. Through the commandment sin could be recognized.

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? There is not!

I ask has God rejected his people? Certainly not! I also am an Israelite, a descendant of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and unite them with (turn them into) the members of a prostitute? God forbid!

We sought to be righteous in Christ. And we were found to be sinners. Is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.

Is the Law then against the promises of God? God forbid! If a law had been given which could impart life, righteousness would have been from the Law.

Never should I boast except in the stake (symbolic: self-denial and atonement) of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is through this stake that the world has been impaled to me, and I to the world.

But Peter said: No Lord for I have never eaten any thing that is defiled or unclean.

I said, 'No Lord, for nothing defiled or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth.'

Are we Jews in any better condition than the people of the nations? Not at all! I have already shown that Jews and the people of the nations are all under the power of sin.