49 Bible Verses about Losing A Friend

A man of many friends will come to ruin but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

He that finds his life shall lose it, and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.

The righteous guideth his neighbour; but the way of the wicked misleadeth them.

He that covereth transgression seeketh love; but he that bringeth a matter up again separateth very friends.

Precious in the sight of Jehovah is the death of his saints.

My brethren, if any one among you err from the truth, and one bring him back,

But I say to you, my friends, Fear not those who kill the body and after this have no more that they can do.

Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and contentions are as the bars of a palace.

It goeth ill with him that is surety for another; but he that hateth suretyship is secure.

And he said to them, Who among you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, let me have three loaves,

And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.

and being come to the house, calls together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep.

And then will many be offended, and will deliver one another up, and hate one another;

I will seek the lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up the broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong: I will feed them with judgment.

And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that was come upon him. And they came each one from his place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to condole with him and to comfort him.

so is a man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am I not in sport?

Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it?

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live;

For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?

And his relatives having heard of it went out to lay hold on him, for they said, He is out of his mind.

And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what is to be done for the hundred talents which I have given to the troop of Israel? And the man of God said, Jehovah is able to give thee much more than this.

Wherefore encourage one another, and build up each one the other, even as also ye do.

If thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.

and having found it she calls together the friends and neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.

But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

So it is not the will of your Father who is in the heavens that one of these little ones should perish.

And Job died, old and full of days.

and all things are of the God who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation:

I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.

He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.

Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things before, take care lest, being led away along with the error of the wicked, ye should fall from your own stedfastness:

And he said to them, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left home, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, yet not with a perfect heart.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I confided, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost; and Kish said to Saul his son, Take, I pray, one of the young men with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.

I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant wast thou unto me; Thy love to me was wonderful, passing women's love.

My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me.

The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

For if their casting away be the world's reconciliation, what their reception but life from among the dead?

But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God will make thee fall before the enemy, for there is with God power to help and to cast down.

Jehovah is nigh to those that are of a broken heart, and saveth them that are of a contrite spirit.

Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be the friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.

And every one who has left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit life eternal.

Jesus therefore then said to them plainly, Lazarus has died.

for the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.

Jesus answering said, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,

And he spoke also a parable to them to the purport that they should always pray and not faint,