37 Bible Verses about People Abandoning People

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 shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?

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

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

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of way-faring men; that I might leave my people, and go 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 is fallen; she shall no more rise! she is forsaken upon her land; there is none 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 he that is a hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth, and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

Woe to the idle shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be wholly dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart from that house, or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence shake off the dust under your feet, for a testimony against them. Verily 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 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 cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding, be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh to you.

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

Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he 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 to them, Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean: from henceforth I will go to 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 to us, By this shall I know that ye are true men: leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and depart:

And we said to 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 flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen.

And he that regarded not the word of the LORD, left his servants and his cattle in the field.

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

At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

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

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

For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and hath departed to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Wherefore, when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellence, a joy of many generations.

We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth to heaven, and is lifted even to the skies.

For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

Then the devil leaveth him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him.