Forsaking

Yet the heathen gods are false gods; whereas Israel, in forsaking Me for other gods, forsake their "glory" for unprofitable idols. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Though He seems, in forsaking me, to be as one dead, He now truly "liveth" in heaven; hereafter He shall appear also above the dust of earth. ❋ Unknown (1871)

The woman at last told her husband that he must have been wrong in forsaking a religion of which her slave had told her such wonderful things. ❋ Unknown (1864)

Deny to others what you will; to me, it is as clear as day, that in forsaking your husband and home, you are acting under David Stuart's advice, in the hope of becoming, by a most indecent fiction of the law, his wedded wife. ❋ Unknown (1851)

We have another instance of the faith of Moses, namely, in forsaking ❋ Unknown (1721)

They quarrel with God as if he had dealt unkindly by them in forsaking them, whereas they by their idolatry had driven him from them; they have withdrawn from their allegiance to him, and so have thrown themselves out of this protection. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The prophet, having shown their base ingratitude in forsaking God, here shows their unparalleled fickleness and folly (v. 9): I will yet plead with you. ❋ Unknown (1721)

He must upbraid them with their horrid ingratitude in forsaking a God who had been of old so kind to them, that this might either make them ashamed and bring them to repentance, or might justify God in turning his hand against them. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Had God no other end in forsaking and rejecting them than their destruction? ❋ Unknown (1721)

On the contrary, those that have deserted him shall be ashamed before him; they shall be ashamed of themselves, ashamed of their unbelief, their cowardice, ingratitude, temerity, and folly, in forsaking so glorious a Redeemer. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Spirit, was that of justification by the works of the law or by the faith of Christ; they very well knew that it was not the former, but the latter; and therefore must needs be inexcusable in forsaking a doctrine which had been so signally owned and attested, and exchanging it for one that had received no such attestations. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Thus the apostle endeavours to impress upon these Galatians a due sense of their guilt in forsaking the gospel way of justification; and yet at the same time he tempers his reproof with mildness and tenderness towards them, and represents them as rather drawn into it by the arts and industry of some that troubled them than as coming into it of their own accord, which, though it did not excuse them, yet was some extenuation of their fault. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The greater were God's favors to them from the first, the fouler was their ingratitude in forsaking Him (Jer ❋ Unknown (1871)

As the website Right Web describes it, the document "called for massive increases in defense spending, the assertion of lone superpower status, the prevention of the emergence of any regional competitors, the use of preventive -- or preemptive -- force, and the idea of forsaking multilateralism if it didn't suit U.S. interests." ❋ Unknown (2006)

But apart from physical inconvenience, the idea of forsaking their homes and husbands was too ridiculous. ❋ T. Phelan (N/A)

It will be remembered that at a somewhat similar crisis in life young Robert Burns entertained seriously the idea of forsaking Scotland for the West Indies. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Solomon here calls forsaking of sin, is elsewhere in Scripture more fully expressed, by "ceasing to do evil, and learning to do well," ❋ 1630-1694 (1820)

And as this must be the spring of it, so there is another stream that will certainly flow from the ingenuous confession of our sins that is, a forsaking of them. ❋ Hugh Binning (1640)

The main difference is that is he is not married, has not promised to be faithful to one woman, therefore "forsaking" all others. ❋ Unknown (2009)