Bible Verses About Resignation

And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.

And gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me.

So Paul departed from among them.

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

And he left all, rose up, and followed him.

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.

Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

For the Lord will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.

Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

And they all forsook him, and fled.

Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.

Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.

For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.

From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:

Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.

So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.