What Does the Bible Say About Ran Away?

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

1 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Joel 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Ezekiel 33:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.

Isaiah 55:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

Deuteronomy 23:15-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you. He shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he shall choose within one of your towns, wherever it suits him. You shall not wrong him.

James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

Galatians 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

1 Corinthians 9:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Acts 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

John 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

John 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 24:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Isaiah 28:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

30 Bible Verses about Ran Away

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Joel 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ezekiel 33:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 55:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 23:15-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 28:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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30 Bible Verses about Ran Away

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Matthew 6:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Joel 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ezekiel 33:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 55:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 23:15-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 28:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes