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 his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

When my father and my mother forsake me, Then Jehovah will take me up.

That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth 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 off, ye simple ones, 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 is come to pass, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him, and fled.

And they all left him, and fled.

He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, beholdeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth, and the wolf snatcheth them, and scattereth them :

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

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

And whatsoever place shall not receive you, and they hear you not, as ye go forth thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony unto them.

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

Even the dust from your city, that cleaveth to our feet, we wipe off against you: nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh.

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

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

And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook out his raiment 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 threw off their garments, and cast dust into the air,

And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way;

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 brethren, 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 Jehovah left his servants and his cattle in the field.

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

At my first defence no one took my part, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their account.

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 thought not good to take with them him who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

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

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

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

Whereas thou hast 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 every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

For Jehovah hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, saith thy God.

Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.

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