49 Bible Verses about Losing A Friend

A man with many friends may be harmed,
but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

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Anyone finding his life will lose it, and anyone losing his life because of Me will find it.

A righteous man is careful in dealing with his neighbor,
but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.

Whoever conceals an offense promotes love,
but whoever gossips about it separates friends.

The death of His faithful ones
is valuable in the Lord’s sight.

My brothers, if any among you strays from the truth, and someone turns him back,

“And I say to you, My friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.

You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me;
darkness is my only friend.

An offended brother is harder to reach
than a fortified city,
and quarrels are like the bars of a fortress.

If someone puts up security for a stranger,
he will suffer for it,
but the one who hates such agreements is protected.

He also said to them: “Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him at midnight and says to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his prosperity and doubled his previous possessions.

and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’

Then many will take offense, betray one another and hate one another.

“I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bandage the injured, and strengthen the weak, but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will shepherd them with justice.

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

so is the man who deceives his neighbor
and says, “I was only joking!”

“Or what woman who has 10 silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?

Life and death are in the power of the tongue,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.

For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his life?

When His family heard this, they set out to restrain Him, because they said, “He’s out of His mind.”

Then Amaziah said to the man of God, “What should I do about the 7,500 pounds of silver I gave to Israel’s division?”

The man of God replied, “The Lord is able to give you much more than this.”

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up as you are already doing.

If you do nothing in a difficult time,
your strength is limited.

When she finds it, she calls her women friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the silver coin I lost!’

When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

Then Job died, old and full of days.

Everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

I know what I’ll do so that when I’m removed from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’

The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Therefore, dear friends, since you know this in advance, be on your guard, so that you are not led away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own stability.

So He said to them, “I assure you: There is no one who has left a house, wife or brothers, parents or children because of the kingdom of God,

He did what was right in the Lord’s sight but not wholeheartedly.

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

One day the donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off. Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the attendants with you and go look for the donkeys.”

I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother.
You were such a friend to me.
Your love for me was more wonderful
than the love of women.

My heart races, my strength leaves me,
and even the light of my eyes has faded.

So the sisters sent a message to Him: “Lord, the one You love is sick.”

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

But if you go with them, do it! Be strong for battle! But God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to make one stumble.”

The Lord is near the brokenhearted;
He saves those crushed in spirit.

Adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

And everyone who has left houses, brothers or sisters, father or mother, children, or fields because of My name will receive 100 times more and will inherit eternal life.

So Jesus then told them plainly, “Lazarus has died.

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”

“I assure you,” Jesus said, “there is no one who has left house, brothers or sisters, mother or father, children, or fields because of Me and the gospel,

He then told them a parable on the need for them to pray always and not become discouraged: