46 Bible Verses about Losing Friends

Wealth makes many friends, but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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;

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

And that the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called the Friend of God.

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?

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

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

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

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.

With me is counsel, and existence; I am understanding; strength belongs to me.

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

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

Many will intreat the favour of the prince, but every man is a friend to him that gives.

It is bad, it is bad, the buyer says; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

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 ye shall be betrayed both by parents and brethren and kinsfolk and friends, and some of you they shall cause to be put to death.

not slothful in earnest care, but fervent in the Spirit, serving the Lord,

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.

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

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name; those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

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 answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and do it.

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

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

I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needs.

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.

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

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

that is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltness, with what will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

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

Nun The secret of the LORD is for those that fear him, and he will show them his covenant.

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.

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word unto him; for they saw that his grief was very great.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as the others who have no hope.