21 Bible Verses about Friends Failing

Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor.

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.

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

For I heard the slanders of many, Terror is all around! Expose! Yea, let us expose him! Every man of my peace is watching for my fall, saying, Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail over him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is like your own soul, lures you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, that is, of the gods of the people who are around you, near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth, you shall not consent to him nor listen to him. Nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare, nor shall you hide him.read more.
But you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And you shall stone him with stones so that he dies, because he has sought to drive you away from Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.

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.

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

Therefore so says Jehovah, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.

Even a man, my friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

but it is you, a man my rank, my guide and my friend.

Yea, you cause anger to fall on the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

For my love they are my foes; but I am in prayer.

She bitterly weeps in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers, she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt deceitfully with her; they became her enemies.

And, behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought out to the king of Babylon's rulers, and they shall say, Your friends have urged you on, and have prevailed against you. Your feet have sunk in the mire, and they have turned away.

All your lovers have forgotten you; they do not seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity; because your sins are many.

And Jesus said to him, Friend, why are you here? Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and took Him.

All the men of your covenant have dismissed you to the border; the men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and have overcome you. They are setting your bread as a snare under you; there is no understanding in them.

Many will beg the favor of a ruler, and all are friends to a man who gives gifts.

And you shall be betrayed also by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends. And they will cause some of you to be put to death.

From this time, Pilate sought to release Him. But the Jews cried out, saying, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.