'Off' in the Bible

If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.

The herdsmen ran off, went into the town, and told everything that had happened to the demon-possessed men.

And if anyone will not welcome you or listen to your message, shake the dust off your feet as you leave that house or that town.

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

The one who had received five talents went off right away and put his money to work and gained five more.

But one of those with Jesus grabbed his sword, drew it out, and struck the high priest's slave, cutting off his ear.

Now the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

If a place will not welcome you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire.

If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

He threw off his cloak, jumped up, and came to Jesus.

One of the bystanders drew his sword and struck the high priest's slave, cutting off his ear.

but he ran off naked, leaving his linen cloth behind.

So they hurried off and located Mary and Joseph, and found the baby lying in a manger.

When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside.

Wherever they do not receive you, as you leave that town, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this: The kingdom of God has come.'

Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him up, and went off, leaving him half dead.

If he cannot succeed, he will send a representative while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace.

And in hell, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side.

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!'

Then one of them struck the high priest's slave, cutting off his right ear.

(For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)

Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,

Jesus told him, "Go home; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!"

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, pulled it out and struck the high priest's slave, cutting off his right ear. (Now the slave's name was Malchus.)

But the Lord said to him, 'Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the prison cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, "Get up quickly!" And the chains fell off Peter's wrists.

Then, after they had fasted and prayed and placed their hands on them, they sent them off.

So after they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them, they went to Iconium.

After they had spent some time there, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

The crowd joined the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue.

We set sail from there, and on the following day we arrived off Chios. The next day we approached Samos, and the day after that we arrived at Miletus.

While they were screaming and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust in the air,

After we had sailed across the open sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we put in at Myra in Lycia.

We sailed slowly for many days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus. Because the wind prevented us from going any farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone.

However, Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm.

From there we cast off and arrived at Rhegium, and after one day a south wind sprang up and on the second day we came to Puteoli.

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,

Then you will say, "The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."

Granted! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!

And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near,

But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices

For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you -- not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

But whoever has the world's possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?

Another angel, who was in charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to the angel who had the sharp sickle, "Use your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes off the vine of the earth, because its grapes are now ripe."

They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say, "Woe, woe, O great city, Babylon the powerful city! For in a single hour your doom has come!"

The merchants who sold these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep and mourn,

because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!" And every ship's captain, and all who sail along the coast -- seamen, and all who make their living from the sea, stood a long way off