49 Bible Verses about Losing A Friend

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

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,

"I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.

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

A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.

Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.

And he said to them, "Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves,

And the LORDrestored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.'

And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"

"Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, "He is out of his mind."

And Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do about the hundred talents that I have given to the army of Israel?" The man of God answered, "The LORD is able to give you much more than this."

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.'

But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;

I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.'

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.

And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not with a whole heart.

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

Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, "Take one of the young men with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys."

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.

My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes--it also has gone from me.

So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill."

For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? For God has power to help or to cast down."

The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus has died,

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.