49 Bible Verses about Losing A Friend

The man that has friends must show himself to be a friend, and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

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

The righteous causes his neighbour to consider: but the way of the wicked causes them to err.

He that covers a transgression seeks love, but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his merciful ones.

Brethren, if any of you have erred from the truth, and someone should convert him;

And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of those that kill the body and, after that, have no more that they can do.

Thou hast put lover and friend far from me, and placed my acquaintances into darkness.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

With anxiety shall he that is surety for a stranger be afflicted, and he that hates suretiship shall live securely.

And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend and shall go unto him at midnight and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;

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

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.

And then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another.

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

Now three friends of Job, Eliphaz, the Temanite, Bildad, the Shuhite, and Zophar, the Naamathite, when they heard of all this evil that had come upon him, each one came from his own place; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

so is the man that destroys his friend and says, Am I not in sport?

Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?

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

Jesus said unto her, I AM the resurrection and the life; he that believes in me, though he is dead, yet shall he live;

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

And when his friends and family heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him; for they said, He is beside himself.

Then Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.

Therefore comfort and edify one another, even as ye do.

If thou art slack in the day of tribulation, thy strength shall be reduced.

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

When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

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

So Job died, being old and full of days.

And all this by God, who reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;

I know what I shall do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

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

Ye, therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things in advance, be on guard lest by the error of the wicked ye be deceived with the others and fall from your own steadfastness.

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

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

Even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

And the she asses of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. And Kish said to Saul, his son, Take now one of the slaves with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.

I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant hast thou been unto me; thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

But if thou wilt go, if thou wilt do it, and strengthen thyself for the battle, God shall make thee fall before the enemy; for in God is the strength, to help or to cast down.

Tzaddi The LORD is near unto those that are of a broken heart and saves such as are of a contrite spirit.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.

And every one that has forsaken houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name's sake shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit eternal life.

Then Jesus said unto them plainly, Lazarus has died.

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

And answering him, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, There is no one that has left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the gospel's

And he spoke a parable unto them to this end, that it behooves us always to pray and not faint,