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 father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

For my father and my mother have left me, and the LORD has taken me up.

who forsakes the prince of her youth and forgets 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, a congregation of rebels.

Forsake that which is foolish and live and go in the way of understanding.

The virgin of Israel has fallen; she shall not be able to rise again: she was forsaken upon her land; there is no one to raise her up.

But all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.

And they all forsook him and fled.

But the hireling, who is not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep.

Woe to the useless pastor that leaves the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm and upon his right eye; his arm shall be completely dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

And whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words, depart out of that house or city and shake off the dust of your feet.

And whosoever shall not receive you nor hear you, when ye depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet in testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment than for that city.

And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

Even the very dust of your city which cleaves on us we do wipe off against you; notwithstanding be ye sure of this that the kingdom of God is come near unto you.

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

Also I shook my lap and said, Thus will God shake out each man from his house and from his labour, that does not perform this promise, even thus shall he be shaken out and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook his raiment and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean; from now on I will go unto the Gentiles.

And as they cried out and cast off their clothes and threw dust into the air,

And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby I shall know that ye are men of the truth; leave one of your brethren here with me and take food for the famine of your households and go

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 sheep and their cows, they left in the land of Goshen.

and he that did not regard the word of the LORD left his slaves and his livestock in the field.

This, thou knowest, that all those who are in Asia are turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

At my first answer no one stood with me, but all men forsook me: let it not be imputed unto them.

Now when Paul and his company sailed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; then John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.

But Paul thought it not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia and did not go with them to the work.

for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

Therefore when we could wait no longer, we agreed to remain in Athens alone

Because he oppressed and forsook the poor; because he has violently taken away houses which he did not build,

Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will place thee in eternal glory, in joy from generation to generation.

We applied the medicine to Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go each one into his own land; for her judgment is come unto heaven and is lifted up even to the clouds.

For as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit has the LORD called thee, and as a young woman who is put away, said thy God.

Freed among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou dost remember no more; and they are cut off from thy hand.

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