21 Bible Verses about Taking Other People

He brought back all the goods and also his relative Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the other people.

Jacob answered, “I was afraid, for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.

Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went away.

But Leah replied to her, “Isn’t it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son’s mandrakes?”

“Well,” Rachel said, “you can sleep with him tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;
the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.

My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

“This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am against the shepherds. I will demand My flock from them and prevent them from shepherding the flock. The shepherds will no longer feed themselves, for I will rescue My flock from their mouths so that they will not be food for them.

Enoch walked with God; then he was not there because God took him.

Then the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the Lord will take your master away from you today?”

He said, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

Then the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho came up to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the Lord will take your master away from you today?”

He said, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

But God will redeem my life
from the power of Sheol,
for He will take me.Selah

Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one left.

Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one left.

I tell you, on that night two will be in one bed: One will be taken and the other will be left.

Two women will be grinding grain together: One will be taken and the other left.

[Two will be in a field: One will be taken, and the other will be left.]”

Do not drag me away with the wicked,
with the evildoers,
who speak in friendly ways with their neighbors
while malice is in their hearts.

“As I live,” says the Lord, “though you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would tear you from it.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness;