48 Bible Verses about Losing A Friend

There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.

The upright man is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of evil-doers is a cause of error to them.

He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.

Dear in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints.

My brothers, if one of you has gone out of the way of the true faith and another has made him see his error,

And I say to you, my friends, Have no fear of those who may put the body to death, and are able to do no more than that.

You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

A brother wounded is like a strong town, and violent acts are like a locked tower.

He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.

And he said to them, Which of you, having a friend, would go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, Friend, let me have three cakes of bread;

And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.

And when he gets back to his house, he sends for his neighbours and friends, saying to them, Be glad with me, for I have got back my sheep which had gone away.

And numbers of people will be turned from the right way, and will give one another up and have hate for one another.

I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.

And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.

So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

Or what woman, having ten bits of silver, if one bit has gone from her hands, will not get a light, and go through her house, searching with care till she sees it?

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.

Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;

What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?

And when his friends had news of it, they went out to get him, saying, He is off his head.

Then Amaziah said to the man of God, But what is to be done about the hundred talents which I have given for the armed band of Israel? And the man of God in answer said, God is able to give you much more than this.

So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.

If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.

And when she has it again, she gets her friends and neighbours together, saying, Be glad with me, for I have got back the bit of silver which had gone from me.

When this came to his ears, Jesus said, The end of this disease is not death, but the glory of God, so that the Son of God may have glory because of it.

Even so it is not the pleasure of your Father in heaven for one of these little ones to come to destruction.

And Job came to his end, old and full of days.

But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace;

I have come to a decision what to do, so that when I am put out of my position they will take me into their houses.

He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.

For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.

Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.

Now the asses of Saul's father Kish had gone wandering away. And Kish said to his son Saul, Take one of the servants with you, and get up and go in search of the asses.

I am full of grief for you, my brother Jonathan: very dear have you been to me: your love for me was a wonder, greater than the love of women.

So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill.

For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?

But go yourself, and be strong in war; God will not let you go down before those who are fighting against you; for God has power to give help or to send you down before your attackers.

The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.

O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

Then Jesus said to them clearly, Lazarus is dead.

For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour.

Jesus said, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, because of me and the good news,

And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;