'Off' in the Bible

And if your right hand is a snare to you, cut it off and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should go into Gehenna.

And he got up, and went off home.

And whoever refuses to receive you or even to listen to your Message, as you leave that house or town, shake off the very dust from your feet.

Again, how can any one enter the house of a strong man and carry off his goods, unless first of all he masters and secures the strong man: then he will ransack his house.

If your hand or your foot is causing you to fall into sin, cut it off and away with it. It is better for you to enter into Life crippled in hand or foot than to remain in possession of two sound hands or feet but be thrown into the fire of the Ages.

But one of those with Jesus drew his sword and struck the High Priest's servant, cutting off his ear.

Stripping off His garments, they put on Him a general's short crimson cloak.

At last, having finished their sport, they took off the cloak, clothed Him again in His own garments, and led Him away for crucifixion.

Nay, no one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his property, unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

But wherever they will not receive you or listen to you, when you leave shake off the very dust from under your feet to bear witness concerning them."

"And whoever shall occasion the fall of one of these little ones who believe, he would be better off if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea.

If your hand should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life maimed, than remain in possession of both your hands and go away into Gehenna, into the fire which cannot be put out.

Or if your foot should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life crippled, than remain in possession of both your feet and be thrown into Gehenna.

Many angrily told him to leave off shouting; but he only cried out all the louder, "Son of David, have pity on me."

But one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck a blow at the High Priest's servant, cutting off his ear.

Now at the Festival it was customary for Pilate to release to the Jews any one prisoner whom they might beg off from punishment;

At last, having finished their sport, they took the robe off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and led Him out to crucify Him.

No kiss did you give me; but she from the moment I came in has not left off tenderly kissing my feet.

The people were all weeping aloud and beating their breasts for her; but He said, "Leave off wailing; for she is not dead, but asleep."

Wherever they refuse to receive you, as you leave that town shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against them."

"'The very dust of your town that hangs about us we wipe off as a protest. Only be sure of this, that the Kingdom of God is close at hand.'

If not, while the other is still a long way off, he sends messengers and sues for peace.

"So he rose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and pitied him, and ran and threw his arms round his neck and kissed him tenderly.

covered with sores and longing to make a full meal off the scraps flung on the floor from the rich man's table. Nay, the dogs, too, used to come and lick his sores.

And they will say to you, 'See there!' 'See here!' Do not start off and go in pursuit.

They will fall by the sword, or be carried off into slavery among all the Gentiles. And Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles, till the appointed times of the Gentiles have expired.

Perceiving, however, that they were about to come and carry Him off by force to make Him a king, Jesus withdrew again up the hill alone by Himself.

There they got on board a boat, and pushed off to cross the Lake to Capernaum. By this time it had become dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them.

though some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what He had done.

rose from the table, threw off His upper garments, and took a towel and tied it round Him.

But the rest of the disciples came in the small boat (for they were not far from land--only about a hundred yards off)

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Oliveyard, which is near Jerusalem, about a mile off.

For to you belongs the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, whoever the Lord our God may call."

"'Take off your shoes,' said the Lord, 'for the spot on which you are standing is holy ground.

dragged him out of the city, and stoned him, the witnesses throwing off their outer garments and giving them into the care of a young man called Saul.

But Saul cruelly harassed the Church. He went into house after house, and, dragging off both men and women, threw them into prison.

and his hearers were all amazed, and began to ask one another, "Is not this the man who in Jerusalem tried to exterminate those who called upon that Name, and came here on purpose to carry them off in chains to the High Priests?"

Suddenly an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell; and, striking Peter on the side, he woke him and said, "Rise quickly." Instantly the chains dropped off his wrists.

Then, throwing off all reserve, Paul and Barnabas said, "We were bound to proclaim God's Message to you first. But since you spurn it and judge yourselves to be unworthy of the Life of the Ages--well, we turn to the Gentiles.

But they shook off the dust from their feet as a protest against them and came to Iconium;

But when her owners saw that their hopes of gain were gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them off to the magistrates in the public square.

when suddenly there was such a violent shock of earthquake that the prison shook to its foundations. Instantly the doors all flew open, and the chains fell off from every prisoner.

Sailing from there, we arrived the next day off Chios. On the next we touched at Samos; and on the day following reached Miletus.

When, however, our time was up, we left and went on our way, all the disciples and their wives and children coming to see us off. Then, after kneeling down on the beach and praying,

And now why delay? Rise, get yourself baptized, and wash off your sins, calling upon His name.'

and, sailing the whole length of the sea that lies off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we reached Myra in Lycia.

It took several days of slow sailing for us to come with difficulty off Cnidus; from which point, as the wind did not allow us to get on in the direct course, we ran under the lee of Crete by Salmone.

Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship's boat and let her fall off.

He, however, shook the reptile off into the fire and was unhurt.

I ask then, Has God cast off His People? No, indeed. Why, I myself am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham and of the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not cast off His People whom He knew beforehand. Or are you ignorant of what Scripture says in speaking of Elijah--how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

"Branches have been lopped off," you will say, "for the sake of my being grafted in."

This is true; yet it was their unbelief that cut them off, and you only stand through your faith.

And all this describes what some of you were. But now you have had every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy: now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.

For we overthrow arrogant 'reckonings,' and every stronghold that towers high in defiance of the knowledge of God, and we carry off every thought as if into slavery--into subjection to Christ;

For you tolerate it, if any one enslaves you, lives at your expense, makes off with your property, gives himself airs, or strikes you on the face.

In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not performed by hand, when you threw off your sinful nature in true Christian circumcision;

And the hostile princes and rulers He shook off from Himself, and boldly displayed them as His conquests, when by the Cross He triumphed over them.

Do not speak falsehoods to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its doings,

Among them are included the men who make their way into private houses and carry off weak women as their prisoners--women who, weighed down by the burden of their sins, are led by ever-changing caprice,

The sun rises with his scorching heat and dries up the herbage, so that its flowers drop off and the beauty of its appearance perishes, and in the same way rich men with all their prosperity will fade away.

"All mankind resemble the herbage, and all their beauty is like its flowers. The herbage dries up, and its flowers drop off;

And, corresponding to that figure, the water of baptism now saves you--not the washing off of material defilement, but the craving of a good conscience after God--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

while they stand afar off because of their terror at her heavy punishment, and say, 'Alas, alas, thou great city, O Babylon, the mighty city! For in one short hour thy doom has come!'

Those who traded in these things, who grew wealthy through her, will stand afar off, struck with terror at her punishment,

stood afar off, and cried aloud when they saw the smoke of her burning. And they said, 'What city is like this great city?'