37 Bible Verses about People Abandoning People

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the 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 for wayfaring men; that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

The virgin of Israel has fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

And they all forsook him, and fled.

But he that is a hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.

Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaves the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be wholly dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.

And whosoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

Even the very dust of your city, which cleaves on us, we do wipe off against you: nevertheless be sure of this, that the kingdom of God has come near unto you.

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that performs not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his clothes, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,

And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that you are honest men; leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:

And we said unto 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 that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.

This you know, that all they who are in Asia are turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

At my first defense no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

Now when Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.

But Paul thought it not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

Therefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;

Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house which he built not;

Although you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through you, I will make you an eternal excellence, a joy of many generations.

We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country: for her judgment reaches unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, says your God.

Adrift among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand.

Then the devil left him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.