37 Bible Verses about People Abandoning People

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

and He also said:

“For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh?

For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
[and be joined to his wife],

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

Even if my father and mother abandon me,
the Lord cares for me.

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

If only I had a traveler’s lodging place
in the wilderness,
I would abandon my people
and depart from them,
for they are all adulterers,
a solemn assembly of treacherous people.

Leave inexperience behind, and you will live;
pursue the way of understanding.

She has fallen;
Virgin Israel will never rise again.
She lies abandoned on her land,
with no one to raise her up.

But all this has happened so that the prophetic Scriptures would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and ran away.

Then they all deserted Him and ran away.

The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.

Woe to the worthless shepherd
who deserts the flock!
May a sword strike his arm
and his right eye!
May his arm wither away
and his right eye go completely blind!”

If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.

If any place does not welcome you and people refuse to listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

If they do not welcome you, when you leave that town, shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”

‘We are wiping off as a witness against you even the dust of your town that clings to our feet. Know this for certain: The kingdom of God has come near.’

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

I also shook the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake from his house and property everyone who doesn’t keep this promise. May he be shaken out and have nothing!”

The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the Lord. Then the people did as they had promised.

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook his robe and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

As they were yelling and flinging aside their robes and throwing dust into the air,

The man who is the lord of the country said to us, ‘This is how I will know if you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.

But we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’

along with all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their sheep, and their cattle were left in the land of Goshen.

but those who didn’t take the Lord’s word seriously left their servants and livestock in the field.

This you know: All those in Asia have turned away from me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

At my first defense, no one stood by me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be counted against them.

Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John, however, left them and went back to Jerusalem.

But Paul did not think it appropriate to take along this man who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone on with them to the work.

for Demas has deserted me, because he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Therefore, when we could no longer stand it, we thought it was better to be left alone in Athens.

For he oppressed and abandoned the poor;
he seized a house he did not build.

Instead of your being deserted and hated,
with no one passing through,
I will make you an object of eternal pride,
a joy from age to age.

We tried to heal Babylon,
but she could not be healed.
Abandon her!
Let each of us go to his own land,
for her judgment extends to the sky
and reaches as far as the clouds.

For the Lord has called you,
like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit,
a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”
says your God.

abandoned among the dead.
I am like the slain lying in the grave,
whom You no longer remember,
and who are cut off from Your care.

Then the Devil left Him, and immediately angels came and began to serve Him.