17 Bible Verses about Abandoning Friends

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.

And they all left him and fled.

All a poor man's brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.

For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia,Titus to Dalmatia.

For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me in.

You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape; my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you. Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selahread more.
Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon? Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? But I, O LORD, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you. O LORD, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me? Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me. They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in on me together. You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."

Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals."

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.

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

For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers 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 your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you."

For a brief moment I deserted you, but with great compassion I will gather you.