'Away' in the Bible

On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.

Then another slave came and said, 'Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

So he sent another slave. They beat this one too, treated him outrageously, and sent him away empty-handed.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

He went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he might betray Jesus, handing him over to them.

He went away from them about a stone's throw, knelt down, and prayed,

"Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done."

Then they arrested Jesus, led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter was following at a distance.

When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. Then they led Jesus away to their council

But they all shouted out together, "Take this man away! Release Barabbas for us!"

As they led him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country. They placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus.

Two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him.

They found that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb,

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

To those who sold the doves he said, "Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father's house a marketplace!"

The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias).

The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake realized that only one small boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

So Jesus said to the twelve, "You don't want to go away too, do you?"

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

Then Jesus said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."

and said to him, "Go wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "sent"). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.

They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger's voice."

The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.

Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father."

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, "Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days."

So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation."

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.

While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light." When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.

If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away.

There are many dwelling places in my Father's house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.

You heard me say to you, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.

"I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Then they shouted out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate asked, "Shall I crucify your king?" The high priests replied, "We have no king except Caesar!"

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he went and took the body away.

Now very early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been moved away from the entrance.

They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" Mary replied, "They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!"

Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" Because she thought he was the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him."

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Mount of Olives (which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away).

For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."

So in this case I say to you, stay away from these men and leave them alone, because if this plan or this undertaking originates with people, it will come to nothing,

But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

In humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his posterity? For his life was taken away from the earth."

Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any more, but went on his way rejoicing.

When the brothers found out about this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

When Herod had searched for him and did not find him, he questioned the guards and commanded that they be led away to execution. Then Herod went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.

But the magician Elymas (for that is the way his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

They had a sharp disagreement, so that they parted company. Barnabas took along Mark and sailed away to Cyprus,

At that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized right away.

But Paul said to the police officers, "They had us beaten in public without a proper trial -- even though we are Roman citizens -- and they threw us in prison. And now they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! They themselves must come and escort us out!"

Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.

Then he had them forced away from the judgment seat.

Paul, after staying many more days in Corinth, said farewell to the brothers and sailed away to Syria accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. He had his hair cut off at Cenchrea because he had made a vow.

And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia, by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.

We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to the others in Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

After we tore ourselves away from them, we put out to sea, and sailing a straight course, we came to Cos, on the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

for a crowd of people followed them, screaming, "Away with him!"

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.'

Then he said to me, 'Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"

The crowd was listening to him until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, "Away with this man from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live!"

Then those who were about to interrogate him stayed away from him, and the commanding officer was frightened when he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him tied up.

When the argument became so great the commanding officer feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, he ordered the detachment to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

Then the commanding officer sent the young man away, directing him, "Tell no one that you have reported these things to me."

While Paul was discussing righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, "Go away for now, and when I have an opportunity, I will send for you."

Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship's boat and let it drift away.

Now the soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.

All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one."

And this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins."

"Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both." The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

But their minds were closed. For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read. It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away.

Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please him.

So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away -- look, what is new has come!

Now I, Paul, appeal to you personally by the meekness and gentleness of Christ (I who am meek when present among you, but am full of courage toward you when away!) --

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.

You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

For this is God's will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

Stay away from every form of evil.

They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

But we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives an undisciplined life and not according to the tradition they received from us.

Some have strayed from these and turned away to empty discussion.

But do not accept younger widows on the list, because their passions may lead them away from Christ and they will desire to marry,