21 Bible Verses about Friends Failing

Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

All a poor man's brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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."

"If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,'which neither you nor your fathers have known, some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him.read more.
But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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;

You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.

My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.

Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.'"

Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.

You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.

In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.

She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.

Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying, "'Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the mud, they turn away from you.'

All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.

Jesus said to him, "Friend, do what you came to do." Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.

All your allies have driven you to your border; those at peace with you have deceived you; they have prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you-- you have no understanding.

Many seek the favor of a generous man, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.

From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar."