17 Bible Verses about Abandoning Friends

Your own friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake them; nor go to your brother's house in the day of your trouble; better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

My people have fallen away, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

And leaving Him, all fled.

All the brothers of the poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him? He pursues them with words, yet they are lacking.

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and he has departed to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

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

You have taken my friends away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them. I am shut up, and I cannot go out. My eye mourns because of affliction; O Jehovah, I have called daily on You; I have stretched out my hands to You. For will You do wonders to the dead? Shall the dead rise and praise You? Selah.read more.
Shall Your loving-kindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in ruin? Shall Your wonders be known in the dark, and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? But to You I have cried, O Jehovah; and in the morning my prayer shall go before You. O Jehovah, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me? I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer Your terrors, I pine away. Your fierce wrath goes over me; Your terrors have cut me off. They surrounded me like waters all the day long; they have come together around me. You have taken lover and friend far from me, and those who know me into darkness.

Let your way of life be without the love of money, and be content with such things as you have, for He has said, "Not at all will I leave you, not at all will I forsake you, never!"

Do not be deceived; evil companionships corrupt good habits.

A man who has friends may be broken up, but there is a Lover who sticks closer than a brother.

You have taken my friends away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them. I am shut up, and I cannot go out.

You have taken lover and friend far from me, and those who know me into darkness.

And Jehu killed all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.

For You have forsaken Your people the house of Jacob, because they have become full from the east, and are fortune-tellers like the Philistines. And they clap their hands with the children of strangers.

who forsakes the guide 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. Yea, they have called a multitude after you. Do not believe them, though they speak good things to you.

For a little moment I have left you; but with great mercies I will gather you.