37 Bible Verses about People Abandoning People

This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. The two shall become one flesh.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, and will stick (adhere) (cleave) (be joined) to his wife. The two will become one flesh.

Even if my father and mother abandon (forsake) me, Jehovah will take care of me.

She is unfaithful to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows to God.

I wish I had a dwelling in the desert. I would abandon my people and go away from them. They are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Forsake the foolish, and live. Travel in the way of understanding.

The virgin of Israel has fallen. She will not rise again. She has been thrown down upon her own land. There is none to raise her up.

This has taken place so that the writings of the prophets will come true. Then all his disciples left him.

They all left him, and fled.

The hired man owns no sheep. He is not the shepherd. He sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep. The wolf snatches them, and scatters them.

Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaves the flock! The sword will be upon his arm, and upon his right eye. His arm will be withered and dried up, and his right eye will be blind.

If someone will not welcome you and listen to the message, leave that house or town, shake the dust off your feet and move on.

When someone will not listen to you leave that house and shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony to the householder.

If someone does not receive you, when you leave the city, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony against that person.

Shake off the dust that clings to your feet, from that city, so they may know that the kingdom of God came near.

So they shook the dust from their feet against them, and went to Iconium.

Shaking out the folds of my robe, I said: So, may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement. Even so let him be sent out and made as nothing. All the people said: Amen! They praised Jehovah. The people did as they said.

When they opposed Paul and treated him abusively he shook out his garment and said to them: Your blood is upon your own heads. I am clean. From now on I will go to the people of the nations.

They were screaming, throwing off their clothes, and throwing dust up in the air.

The governor of that land said to us, 'This is how I will know that you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers with me. Take food for your starving families and go.

We replied, 'The boy cannot leave his father. If the boy leaves him, his father will die.'

His family, including his brothers, and the rest of his father's family all went with him. Only their small children and their sheep, goats, and cattle stayed in the region of Goshen.

He who paid no regard to the word of Jehovah left his servants and his livestock in the field.

You know that all that are in Asia turned away from me. This includes Phygelus and Hermogenes.

At first no one defended me. They all abandoned me. May it not be counted against them.

Paul and his company put out to sea from Paphos. They went to Perga in Pamphylia. John left them to return to Jerusalem.

Paul did not think it a good idea to take him with them. So he left them at Pamphylia.

For Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

When we could endure it no longer, we thought it best to be left behind at Athens.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor and left them destitute. He has violently seized houses he did not build.

You have been abandoned and hated. No one has passed through you. But now I will make you a foundation of everlasting pride, a joy for all generations.

Foreigners living there said: 'We tried to help Babylon, but it was too late. Let us leave now and go back home. God has punished Babylon with all his might and has destroyed it completely.'

Jehovah will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit; a wife, who married young, only to be rejected, says your God.

I am abandoned with the dead, like those who have been killed and lie in graves. I am like those whom you no longer remember, who are cut off from your hand (power) (care).

Then the Devil left Jesus, and the angels came and served him.