37 Bible Verses about People Abandoning People

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh.

and said, 'On account of this a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?

Because of this a man will leave his father and mother and will 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."

If my father or my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will receive me.

she who forsakes the partner of her youth and has forgotten the covenant of her God,

{Oh that I had} in the desert a place of overnight lodging for travelers, that I may leave my people and go from them, for all of them [are] adulterers, a band of traitors.

Lay aside simplicity and live; walk in the way of understanding."

Virgin Israel has fallen and will not rise again. She is deserted on her land; there is no one to raise her up.

But all this has happened in order that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled." Then the disciples all abandoned him [and] fled.

And they all abandoned him [and] fled.

The hired hand, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf approaching and abandons the sheep and runs away--and the wolf seizes them and scatters [them]--

"Woe, my worthless shepherd who deserts the flock! [May] a sword [fall] on his arm and on {his right eye}! May his arm wither completely and {his right eye} be utterly blinded!"

And whoever does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet [as you] are going out of that house or [that] town.

And whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you, [as you] go out from there, shake off the dust that is on your feet for a testimony against them."

And [as for] all those who do not welcome you--[when you] depart from that town, shake off the dust from your feet for 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!"

So [after] shaking off the dust from [their] feet against them, they went to Iconium.

I also shook out my garment and said, "This is how God will shake out everyone from his house who will not keep this promise. So this is how his possessions will be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said, "Amen!" And they praised Yahweh, and the people kept this promise.

And [when] they resisted and reviled [him], he shook out [his] clothes [and] said to them, "Your blood [be] on your [own] heads! I [am] guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!"

And [while] they were screaming and throwing off [their] cloaks and throwing dust into the air,

Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you [are] honest. Leave one [brother] with me, and take [food for] the famine in your households and go.

Then we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father; if he should leave his father, then he would die.'

with all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and the household of his father. They left only their little children and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.

But whoever did not {give regard to} the word of Yahweh abandoned his servants and his livestock in the field.

You know this, that all those in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

At my first defense, no one came to my [aid], but [they] all deserted me; may it not be counted against them.

Now {Paul and his companions} put out to sea from Paphos [and] came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John departed from them [and] returned to Jerusalem.

but Paul held the opinion they should not take this one along, who departed from them in Pamphylia and did not accompany them in the work.

For Demas deserted me, [because he] loved the present age, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens [went] to Galatia; Titus [went] to Dalmatia.

Therefore [when we] could bear [it] no longer, we determined to be left behind in Athens alone,

for he has oppressed; he has abandoned [the] poor; he has seized a house but did not build it.

Instead of you being forsaken and hated {with no one passing through,} I will {make} you an everlasting {object of pride}, a joy of {coming generations}.

We tried to heal Babylon, and she was not healed. Forsake her and let us go each one to his country, for her judgment has reached to the heavens, and it has been lifted up to [the] skies.

For Yahweh has called you like a wife forsaken and hurt of spirit, like [the] wife of childhood when she is rejected, says your God.

set free among the dead, like [the] slain lying in [the] grave, whom you no longer remember, even those cut off from your hand.

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