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

And he got up and followed him, leaving everything behind.

So when we could bear it no longer, we decided to stay on in Athens alone.

And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

While in Galilee, he moved from Nazareth to make his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

The second married her and died without any children, and likewise the third.

and then the third married her, and in this same way all seven died, leaving no children.

When they reached Ephesus, Paul left Priscilla and Aquila behind there, but he himself went into the synagogue and addressed the Jews.

Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away.

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.

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

But what was the divine response to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us: ‘If a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.”