37 Bible Verses about People Abandoning People

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

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

on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

When my father and my mother Have forsaken me, then doth Jehovah gather me.

Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.

Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.

Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.

Fallen, not again to rise, hath the virgin of Israel, Left on her land -- she hath no raiser up.'

but all this hath come to pass, that the Writings of the prophets may be fulfilled;' then all the disciples, having left him, fled.

And having left him they all fled;

and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;

Woe to the worthless shepherd, forsaking the flock, A sword is on his arm, and on his right eye, His arm is utterly dried up, And his right eye is very dim!'

'And whoever may not receive you nor hear your words, coming forth from that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet,

and as many as may not receive you, nor hear you, going out thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony to them; verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in a day of judgment than for that city.'

and as many as may not receive you, going forth from that city, even the dust from your feet shake off, for a testimony against them.'

And the dust that hath cleaved to us, from your city, we do wipe off against you, but this know ye, that the reign of God hath come nigh to you;

and they having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium,

also, my lap I have shaken, and I say, 'Thus doth God shake out every man, who doth not perform this thing, from his house, and from his labour; yea, thus is he shaken out and empty;' and all the assembly say, 'Amen,' and praise Jehovah; and the people do according to this thing.

and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken his garments, he said unto them, 'Your blood is upon your head -- I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.'

And they crying out and casting up their garments, and throwing dust into the air,

And the man, the lord of the land, saith unto us, By this I know that ye are right men -- one of your brethren leave with me, and for the famine of your houses take ye and go,

and we say unto my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father, when he hath left his father, then he hath died;

and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and the house of his father; only their infants, and their flock, and their herd, have they left in the land of Goshen;

and he who hath not set his heart unto the word of Jehovah leaveth his servants and his cattle in the field.

thou hast known this, that they did turn from me -- all those in Asia, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes;

in my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me, (may it not be reckoned to them!)

And those about Paul having set sail from Paphos, came to Perga of Pamphylia, and John having departed from them, did turn back to Jerusalem,

and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work;

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

Wherefore no longer forbearing, we thought good to be left in Athens alone,

For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, And none passing through, I have made thee for an excellency age-during, A joy of generation and generation.

We healed Babylon, and she was not healed, Forsake her, and we go, each to his land, For come unto the heavens hath its judgment, And it hath been lifted up unto the clouds.

For, as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Called thee hath Jehovah, Even a youthful wife when she is refused, said thy God.

Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.

Then doth the Devil leave him, and lo, messengers came and were ministering to him.