17 Bible Verses about Abandoning Friends

Forsake not thine own friend, and thy father's friend. And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity. Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far off.

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

And having forsook him, they all fled.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues [with] words, [but] they are gone.

for Demas forsook me having loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then LORD will take me up.

Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. My eye wastes away because of affliction. I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands to thee. Will thou show wonders to the dead? Shall those who are deceased arise and praise thee? Selah.read more.
Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in destruction? Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? But to thee, O LORD, I have cried, and in the morning my prayer shall come before thee. LORD, why do thou cast off my soul? Why do thou hide thy face from me? I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded. Thy fierce wrath has gone over me. Thy terrors have cut me off. They came round about me like water all the day long. They encompassed me around together. Thou have put beloved and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.

The Way of life is to be without love of money, being content with the things that are present, for he has said, I will, no, not leave thee, and also, I will, no, not forsake thee.

Be not led astray. Evil associations corrupt good habits.

He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Thou have put beloved and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.

So Jehu smote all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left to him none remaining.

For thou have forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled [with things] from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines. And they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God

For even thy brothers, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have cried aloud after thee. Believe them not, though they speak fair words to thee.

For a small moment I have forsaken thee, but with great mercies I will gather thee.