27 Bible Verses about Losing A Friend

He who has found his life will lose it, while he who, for my sake, has lost his life shall find it.

My Brothers, should one of you be led astray from the Truth, and some one bring him back again,

To you who are my friends I say, Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but after that can do no more.

Jesus also said to them: "Suppose that one of you who has a friend were to go to him in the middle of the night and say 'Friend, lend me three loaves,

And, on reaching home, he calls his friends and his neighbors together, and says 'Come and rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.'

And then many will fall away, and will betray one another, and hate one another.

Or again, what woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?

"I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus. "He that believes in me shall live, though he die;

What good is it to a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

When his relations heard of it, they went to take charge of him, for they said that he was out of his mind.

Therefore encourage one another, and try to build up one another's characters, as indeed you are doing.

And, when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, and says 'Come and rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I lost.'

And, when Jesus heard it, he said: "This illness is not to end in death, but is to redound to the honor of God, in order that the Son of God may be honored through it."

So, too, it is the will of my Father who is in Heaven that not one of these lowly ones should be lost.

But all this is the work of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave us the Ministry of Reconciliation--

I know what I will do, so that, as soon as I am turned out of my stewardship, people may welcome me into their homes.'

He who loves his life loses it; while he who hates his life in the present world shall preserve it for Immortal Life.

Do you, therefore, dear friends, now that you know this beforehand, be on your guard against being led away by the errors of reckless people, and so lapsing from your present steadfastness;

"I tell you," he answered, "that there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, on account of the Kingdom of God,

The sisters, therefore, sent this message to Jesus--'Master, your friend is ill';

For, if their being cast aside has meant the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception mean, but Life from the dead?

Unfaithful people! Do not you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

Every one who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or land, on account of my Name, will receive many times as much, and will 'gain Immortal Life.'

Then he said to them plainly: "Lazarus is dead;

The Son of Man has come to 'search for those who are lost' and to save them."

"I tell you," said Jesus, "there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, on my account and on account of the Good News,

Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and never despair.