17 Bible Verses about Abandoning Friends

Do not abandon your own friend and your father’s friend,
And do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster.
Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

“My relatives have failed [me],
And my intimate friends have forgotten me.

Then all of His disciples abandoned Him and fled.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him;
How much more do his friends abandon him!
He pursues them with words, but they are gone.

for Demas, having loved [the pleasures of] this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Although my father and my mother have abandoned me,
Yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].

You have put my friends far from me;
You have made me an object of loathing to them.
I am shut up and I cannot go out.

My eye grows dim with sorrow.
O Lord, I have called on You every day;
I have spread out my hands to You [in prayer].
Will You perform wonders for the dead?
Shall the departed spirits arise and praise You? Selah.
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Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave
Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (the underworld)?

Will Your wonders be known in the darkness?
And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]?
But I have cried out to You, O Lord, for help;
And in the morning my prayer will come to You.

O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?

I was afflicted and close to death from my youth on;
I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.

Your fierce wrath has swept over me;
Your terrors have destroyed me.

They have surrounded me like flood waters all day long;
They have completely encompassed me.

Lover and friend You have placed far from me;
My familiar friends are in darkness.

Let your character [your moral essence, your inner nature] be free from the love of money [shun greed—be financially ethical], being content with what you have; for He has said, “I will never [under any circumstances] desert you [nor give you up nor leave you without support, nor will I in any degree leave you helpless], nor will I forsake or let you down or relax My hold on you [assuredly not]!”

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

The man of too many friends [chosen indiscriminately] will be broken in pieces and come to ruin,
But there is a [true, loving] friend who [is reliable and] sticks closer than a brother.

You have put my friends far from me;
You have made me an object of loathing to them.
I am shut up and I cannot go out.

Lover and friend You have placed far from me;
My familiar friends are in darkness.

So Jehu killed 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 him without a survivor.

Most certainly [Lord] You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob,
Because they are filled with influences from the east,
And they are soothsayers [who foretell] like the Philistines;
Also they strike bargains with the children of foreigners (pagans).

Who leaves the companion (husband) of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.

“For even your [tribal] brothers and the household of your father,
Even they have dealt treacherously (unfaithfully) with you;
Indeed they are [like a pack of hounds] howling after you.
Do not believe them, although they may say kind words and promise you good things.”

“For a brief moment I abandoned you,
But with great compassion and mercy I will gather you [to Myself again].