'Away' in the Bible

For this cause I am writing these things while I am away, so that there may be need for me, when I am present, to make use of sharp measures, by the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for destruction.

I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;

And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus.

What then do the Writings say? Send away the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant-woman will not have a part in the heritage with the son of the free woman.

You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.

Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:

Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;

And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only;

I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.

Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,

But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,

Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.

And if any man does not give attention to what we have said in this letter, take note of that man, and keep away from him, so that he may be shamed.

From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;

But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,

But to the younger widows say No: for when their love is turned away from Christ, they have a desire to be married;

For even now some are turned away to Satan.

For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named;

Through which some, who gave their minds to it, have been turned away from the faith. Grace be with you.

You have had news that all those in Asia went away from me; among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes:

But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.

And put away foolish and uncontrolled questionings, seeing that they are a cause of trouble.

And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

At my first meeting with my judges, no one took my part, but all went away from me. May it not be put to their account.

I did not take you with me when I went away from Crete, so that you might do what was necessary to put things in order there, placing men in authority over the churches in every town, as I said to you;

Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;

For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.

My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.

For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.

And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage.

For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.

And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.

By faith Enoch was taken up to heaven so that he did not see death; he was seen no longer, for God took him away: for before he was taken, witness had been given that he was well-pleasing to God:

All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

Put out the power of fire, got safely away from the edge of the sword, were made strong when they had been feeble, became full of power in war, and put to flight the armies of the nations.

For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.

And the words, Still one more, make it clear that there will be a taking away of those things which are shaking, as of things which are made, so that there may be only those things of which no shaking is possible.

Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.

But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.

So keep in mind where you were at first, and be changed in heart and do the first works; or I will come to you, and will take away your light from its place, if your hearts are not changed.

I have knowledge that your living-place is where Satan has his seat: and you are true to my name, and were not turned away from your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my true witness, who was put to death among you, where Satan has his place.

Straight away I was in the Spirit: and I saw a high seat in heaven, and one was seated on it;

And I saw a grey horse, and the name of him who was seated on it was Death; and Hell came after him. And there was given to them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to put to destruction by the sword, and by taking away their food, and by death, and by the beasts of the earth.

And the heaven was taken away like the roll of a book when it is rolled up; and all the mountains and islands were moved out of their places.

And the snake sent out of his mouth after the woman a river of water, so that she might be taken away by the stream.

And the dragon was angry with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her seed, who keep the orders of God, and the witness of Jesus:

And he took me away in the Spirit into a waste land: and I saw a woman seated on a bright red beast, full of evil names, having seven heads and ten horns,

Watching from far away, for fear of her punishment, saying, Sorrow, sorrow for Babylon, the great town, the strong town! for in one hour you have been judged.

For in one hour such great wealth has come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all who are sailing on the sea, and sailors and all who get their living by the sea, were watching from far away,

And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

And if any man takes away from the words of this book, God will take away from him his part in the tree of life and the holy town, even the things which are in this book.