37 Bible Verses about People Abandoning People

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

and said, 'For this thing, shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh.'

'And for this thing's sake shall man leave his father and mother, and bide by his wife,

"For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall continue with his wife, and two shall be made one flesh."

When my father and my mother forsake me, the LORD taketh me up.

forsaketh the husband of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

Would God that I had a cottage somewhere far from folk, that I might leave my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort.

Forsake ignorance, and ye shall live: and see that ye go in the way of understanding."

The virgin Israel shall fall, and never rise up again: she shall be cast down upon her own ground, and no man shall help her up.

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 ran away.

An hired servant which is not the shepherd, neither the sheep are his own, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flyeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

O idle shepherd, that leaveth the flock! The sword shall come upon his arm and upon his right eye. His arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be sore blinded."

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor will hear your preaching, when ye depart out of that house, or that city, shake off the dust of your feet.

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet, for a witness unto them. I say verily unto you, it shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorra, at 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, which cleaveth on us of your city, we wipe off against you: Notwithstanding, mark this, that the kingdom of God was come nigh upon you.

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

And I shook my lap, and said, "God shake out every man after the same manner from his house and labour, that maintaineth not this word: even thus be he shaken out, and void." And all the congregation said, "Amen," and praised the LORD. And the people did so.

And when they said contrary, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment and said unto them, "Your blood upon your own heads. And from henceforth I go blameless unto the gentiles."

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

And the lord of the country said unto us, 'Hereby shall I know if ye mean truly: leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food necessary for your households and get you away,

And we answered my lord, that the lad could not go from his father, 'For if he should leave his father, he were but a dead man.'

and all the house of Joseph and his brethren and his father's house: only their children and their sheep and their cattle left they behind them in the land of Goshen.

and they that regarded not the word of the LORD, left their servants and their beasts in the field.

This thou knowest, how that all they which are in Asia be turned from me; Of which sort are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

At my first answering for myself, no man assisted me, but all forsook me. I pray God, that it may not be laid to their charges:

When Paul, and they that were with him, had departed by ship from Paphos, they came to Perga a city of Pamphylia. And there departed John from them, and returned to Jerusalem.

But Paul thought it not meet to take him unto their company which departed from them at Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

For Demas hath left me, and hath loved this present world, and is departed into Thessalonica. Crescens is gone to Galatia, and Titus unto Dalmatia.

Wherefore, since we could no longer forbear, it pleased us to remain at Athens alone,

And why? He hath oppressed the poor, and not helped them: houses hath he spoiled, and not builded them.

Because thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee glorious for ever and ever; and joyful throughout all posterities.

'We would have made Babylon whole,' say they, 'but she is not recovered. Therefore will we let her alone, and go every man into his own country. For her judgment is come in to heaven, and is gone up to the clouds.'

For the LORD shall call thee, being as a desolate sorrowful woman, and as a young wife that hath broken her wedlock, sayeth thy God.

free among the dead, like unto them that lie in the grave, which be out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand.

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