37 Bible Verses about People Abandoning People

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and {the two (LXX/NT)} shall be one flesh.

and said, For this reason a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh?

Because of this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife,

Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then LORD will take me up.

who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.

The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise. She is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

But all this has come to pass, so that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, having forsook him.

And having forsook him, they all fled.

But the hired man, and not being the shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye. His arm shall be entirely dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

And whoever will not receive you, nor hear your words, while departing that house or that city, shake off the dust of your feet.

And as many as might not receive you nor hear you, as ye depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony to them. Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in the day of judgment than

And as many as will not receive you, when departing from that city, also shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

Even the dust that clings on us from your city, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know ye this, that the kingdom of God has come near to you.

But after shaking off the dust of their feet against them, they came to Iconium.

Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, who does not perform this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen, and praised LORD. And th

But when they opposed and slandered him, having shaken out his clothes, he said to them, Your blood is upon your heads. I am clean. From henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

And of them crying out, and throwing off their garments, and casting dust into the air,

And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, By this I shall know that ye are TRUE men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take [grain for] the famine of your houses, and go your way,

And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

and all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

And he who did not regard the word of LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.

This thou know, that all those in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

At my first defense no man came with me, but all forsook me. May it not be reckoned to them.

Now those around Paul, having launched from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia. But John, having departed from them, returned to Jerusalem.

But Paul thought it not worthy to bring along this man who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and not having gone with them to the work.

for Demas forsook me having loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Therefore, no longer covering over it, we preferred to be left behind in Athens alone.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

Whereas thou have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each one into his own country. For her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

For LORD has called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit. Even a wife of youth when she is cast off, says thy God.

cast off among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom thou remember no more, and they are cut off from thy hand.

Then the devil leaves him, and behold, heavenly agents came and served him.