20 Bible Verses about Friends Failing

Wealth adds many friends, but a poor man is separated from his friend.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues [with] words, [but] they are gone.

He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we sha

If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, who is as thine own soul, entices thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou have not known, thou, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, near to thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth, thou shall not consent to him, nor hearken to him. Neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shall thou spare, neither shall thou conceal him,read more.
but thou shall surely kill him. Thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw thee away from LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Thou have put beloved and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

Therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish.

Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

But it was thou, a man my equal, my companion, and my familiar friend.

Yea, ye would cast [lots] upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

For my love they are my adversaries, but I [make] prayer.

Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's rulers. And those women shall say, Thy familiar friends have set upon thee, and have prevailed over thee. [Since] thy f

All who love thee have forgotten thee; they seek thee not. For I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased.

And Jesus said to him, Friend, why are thou here. Then having come, they threw their hands on Jesus, and seized him.

All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee on thy way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee. [Those who eat] thy bread lay a snare under thee. There is no unde

Many will entreat the favor of a generous man, and every man is a friend to him who gives gifts.

And ye will be betrayed even by parents, and kinsmen, and friends, and brothers. And some of you they will condemn to death.

From this Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou release this man, thou are not Caesar's friend. Every man who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.