37 Bible Verses about People Abandoning People
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be one flesh.
and said, For this cause a man shall leave father and mother and shall cling to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh?
"For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh."
When my father and my mother forsake me, then Jehovah will take me up.
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for traveling men, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Forsake the foolish and live; and go in the way of understanding.
The virgin of Israel has fallen; she shall rise no more; she lies forsaken on her land. There is none to raise her up.
But all this happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, forsaking Him.
And leaving Him, all fled.
But he who is a hireling and not the shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away. And the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep.
Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! The sword shall be on his arm and on his right eye; his arm shall be completely dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Truly I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
And whoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
Even the dust of your city which clings to us, we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this, that the kingdom of God has come near you.
Also I shook my lap and said, So let God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, who does not keep this promise, even may he be shaken out this way and emptied. And all the congregation said, amen, and praised Jehovah. And the people did according to this promise.
And they resisting and blaspheming, shaking his garment, he said to them, Your blood is on your own heads. I am pure from it. From now on I will go to the nations.
And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, By this I shall know that you are honest. Leave one, your brother, with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and go.
And we said to my lord, The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, he would die.
and all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and his father's house. They left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.
And he that did not regard the Word of Jehovah left his servants and his cattle in the field.
This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
At my first answer no one was beside me, but all deserted me. May it not be laid to their charge.
And Paul and those around him sailed from Paphos and came to Perga of Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem.
But Paul thought it well not to take that one with them, he having withdrawn from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work.
For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and he has departed to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Therefore when we could no longer endure, we were pleased to be left at Athens alone.
Instead of being forsaken and hated, so that no one passes through, I will make you for everlasting majesty, a joy of many generations.
We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her and let us go, each one into his own country; for her judgment reaches to the heavens and is lifted up to the skies.
For Jehovah has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were rejected, says your God.
free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom You remember no more; and by Your hand they are cut off.
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- Abandoning (18 instances)