27 Bible Verses about Losing Friends

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

He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

"I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

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

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

And he said to them, "Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves;

and the scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness", and he was called the friend of God.

"Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

My brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

I have decided what to do, so that people may receive me into their houses when I am put out of the stewardship.'

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

So he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death.

Never be lacking in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.

Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

While I was with them, I kept them in your name the name you gave me. I have guarded them, and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your own steadfastness.

But he said to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?

I tell you, though he will not get up and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as much as he needs.

Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,

that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith.

Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

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

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.