17 Bible Verses about Abandoning Friends

Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.

My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

And they all went away from him in fear.

All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ...

For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.

You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out. My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you. Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.) read more.
Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction? May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead? But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you. Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me? I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength. The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments. They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me. You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.

Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

So Jehu put to death all the rest of the seed of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his relations and his near friends and his priests, till there were no more of them.

For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.

Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.

For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.