37 Bible Verses about People Abandoning People

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Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert, so that I could leave my people and go away from them. For all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.

Proverbs 9:6

Leave your naive ways, and live. Walk in the path of understanding."

Amos 5:2

Fallen is Israel the virgin never to rise again! She is abandoned on her own land, with no one to raise her up.'

John 10:12

The hired worker, who isn't the shepherd and doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, deserts the sheep, and runs away. So the wolf snatches them and scatters them,

Zechariah 11:17

"Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye. May his arm wither and his right eye be completely blind."

Mark 6:11

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

Luke 9:5

if people don't welcome you, when you leave that city, shake its dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

Luke 10:11

"We're wiping off your town's dust that clings to our feet in protest against you! But realize this: the kingdom of God is near!'

Acts 13:51

So Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

Nehemiah 5:13

So I called the priests and made them take an oath to fulfill this promise. I also shook my robes, and said, "May God shake out every man from his house and his possessions who does not keep this promise. May he be emptied out and shaken just like this." All the assembly said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD. And the people kept their promise.

Acts 18:6

But when they began to oppose him and insult him, he shook out his clothes in protest and told them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles."

Acts 22:23

While they were yelling, tossing their coats around, and throwing dirt into the air,

Genesis 42:33

But the man who was in charge of the land responded, "I'm going to test your honesty. Leave one of your brothers with me, take some grain for the famine that's afflicting your households, and leave.

Genesis 44:22

So we told Your Excellency, "The young man cannot leave his father, because if he were to do so, his father would die.'

Genesis 50:8

all of Joseph's household, his brothers, and his father's household. They left behind in the territory of Goshen only their youngest children, their flocks, and their herds.

Exodus 9:21

But whoever did not pay attention to the message from the LORD left his servants and his livestock outside in the fields.

2 Timothy 4:16

At my first trial no one came to my defense. Everyone abandoned me. May it not be held against them!

Acts 13:13

Then Paul and his men set sail from Paphos and arrived in Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them and went back to Jerusalem.

Acts 15:38

but Paul did not think it was right to take along the man who had deserted them in Pamphylia and who had not gone with them into the work.

1 Thessalonians 3:1

Therefore, when we could stand it no longer, we decided to remain alone in Athens

Job 20:19

because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn't build.

Isaiah 60:15

"Although you have been forsaken and despised, with no one traveling through, I will make you the everlasting pride, the joy of all generations.

Jeremiah 51:9

We tried to heal Babylon, but she wouldn't be healed. Leave her, and let each of us go to his own country. For her judgment has reached to the heavens, and is lifted up to the sky.

Isaiah 54:6

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

Psalm 88:5

released to remain with the dead, lying in a grave like a corpse, remembered no longer, and cut off from your power.

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