21 Bible Verses about Friends Failing
Most Relevant Verses
Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.
All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ...
There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.
For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.
If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers; Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other; Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;read more.
But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people. Let him be stoned with stones till he is dead; because it was his purpose to make you false to the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.
My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.
For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will put stones in the way of this people: and the fathers and the sons together will go falling over them; the neighbour and his friend will come to destruction.
Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.
Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.
She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.
See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.
Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;
And Jesus said to him, Friend, do that for which you have come. Then they came and put hands on Jesus, and took him.
All the men who were united with you have been false to you, driving you out to the edge of the land: the men who were at peace with you have overcome you; they have taken their heritage in your place.
Great numbers will make attempts to get the approval of a ruler: and every man is the special friend of him who has something to give.
But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.
Hearing this, Pilate had a desire to let him go free, but the Jews said in a loud voice, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who makes himself a king goes against Caesar.
