37 Bible Verses about People Abandoning People

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?

'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."

For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me in.

who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

Oh that I had in the desert a travelers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.

Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight."

"Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel; forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up."

But all this has taken place 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 who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

"Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!"

And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town.

And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them."

And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them."

'Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.'

But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and went to Iconium.

I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, "So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied."And all the assembly said "Amen" and praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.

And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

And as they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air,

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

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

as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.

but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the LORD left his slaves and his livestock in the field.

You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!

Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem,

But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.

For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia,Titus to Dalmatia.

Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone,

For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he did not build.

Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.

We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.

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

like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.

Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.