23 Bible Verses about Friendlessness
Most Relevant Verses
You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.
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;
Look to the right and see: there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for my soul.
Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me. I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.
"He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me. My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me. The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.read more.
I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy. My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother. Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me. All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.
For I hear the whispering of many-- terror on every side!-- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! "Denounce him! Let us denounce him!" say all my close friends, watching for my fall. "Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him."
He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away."
He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled.
Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.
The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me."
At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!
For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia,Titus to Dalmatia. Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry.
Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
"There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
