37 Bible Verses about People Abandoning People

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."

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

who forsakes the friend 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."

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."

"The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up."

But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him, and fled.

They all left him, and fled.

He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock. The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded."

And whoever does not receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.

Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them."

As many as do not receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them."

'Even the dust from your city that clings to our feet, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God is near.'

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

Also I shook out my lap, and said, "So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn't perform this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied." All the assembly said, "Amen," and praised the LORD. The people did according to this promise.

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads. I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles."

As they yelled, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,

The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

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

Whoever did not regard the word of the LORD left his servants and his livestock in the field.

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

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

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

But Paul did not think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and did not go with them to do the work.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Therefore, when we could not stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at 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 you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, 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 to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.'

For the LORD has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off," says your God.

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels came and served him.