20 Bible Verses about People Abandoning People

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife:

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

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

Then they all forsook him and fled. And a certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body;

But the hireling, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: so the wolf seizeth them, and scattereth the flock.

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words; when ye go out of that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.

And whosoever shall not receive you nor hear you, departing thence shake off the dust under your feet, for a testimony against them. Verily I say to 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 ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

Even the dust of your city which cleaveth to our feet, do we wipe off against you: yet know this, that the kingdom of God is at hand.

And they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and went to Iconium.

But when they set themselves in opposition and blasphemed, he shook his raiment and said to them, Your blood is upon your own head; I am pure: from henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

And as they cried out, and rent their garments, and cast dust into the air,

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

At my first defence no man was with me, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their charge?

And Paul and those with him loosing from Paphos, came to Perga in Pamphylia; but John withdrawing from them, returned to Jerusalem.

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

For Demas hath forsaken me, loving the present world, and is gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Therefore when we could bear no longer, we thought good to be left at Athens alone,

Then the devil leaveth him, and behold angels came and waited upon him.