17 Bible Verses about Abandoning Friends

Thy friend and thy father's friend thou shalt not forsake; and thou shalt not go to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: good he dwelling near, more than a brother far off.

My kindred ceased, and they acquainted with me forgot me.

And having left him, they all fled.

All the brethren of the poor hated him: how much more his friends removed far from him? pursuing words they are not

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved the time now, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

For my father and my mother forsook me, and Jehovah will gather me.

Thou didst remove far from me mine acquaintance; thou didst set me an abomination to them: I was shut up, and I shall not go forth. Mine eye languished from affliction: I called to thee, O Jehovah, in all the day, I stretched my hands to thee. Wilt thou do wonder to the dead? if the shades shall arise, shall they praise thee? Silence.read more.
Shall thy mercy be recounted in the grave, thy faithfulness in destruction? Shall thy wonder be known in darkness, and thy justice in a land of oblivion? And to thee, O Jehovah, I cried, and in the morning shall my prayer anticipate thee. Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou cast off my soul? wilt thou hide thy face from me? I am poor and expiring from youth: I bore thy terrors; I shall be perplexed. Upon me thy burnings passed over; thy terrors made me silent They surrounded me as water all the day; they folded round about me together. Thou didst remove far from me lover and friend, mine acquaintance into darkness.

The disposition exempt from avarice; being contented with present circumstances: for he has said, I will not send thee back, nor forsake thee.

Be not deceived: evil intercourses corrupt good habits.

A man of friends for making friendship: and there is love attaching more than a brother.

Thou didst remove far from me mine acquaintance; thou didst set me an abomination to them: I was shut up, and I shall not go forth.

Thou didst remove far from me lover and friend, mine acquaintance into darkness.

And Jehu will strike all those being left to the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great, and all his acquaintance, and his priests, till he left to him nothing escaping.

For thou didst cast out thy people the house of Jacob, for they were filled from the east, and practicing magic as the rovers, and they will strike hands with the children of strangers.

Forsaking the friend of her youth, and forgetting the covenant of her God.

For also thy brethren and the house of thy father, they also acted faithlessly with thee; they also called after thee a fulness: thou shalt not believe in them for they will speak to thee good things.

In a little moment I forsook thee; and with great mercies I will gather thee.