Cutting

As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh, my master,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!”

Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.

So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees.

Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,

You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.

At this, one of Jesus’ companions drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear.

Night and day in the tombs and in the mountains he kept crying out and cutting himself with stones.

And one of the bystanders drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear.

And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.

Then Simon Peter drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.

Cutting away the anchors, they left them in the sea as they loosened the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach.