49 Bible Verses about Losing A Friend

A man of [many] friends will come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it.

A righteous person will seek out his neighbor, but the way of the wicked will lead them astray.

He who forgives an affront fosters love, but he who waits on a matter will alienate a friend.

Costly {in Yahweh's view} [is] the death of his faithful [ones].

My brothers, if anyone among you should wander away from the truth and someone turns him back,

"And I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after these [things] do not have anything more to do.

You have removed loved one and friend far from me, my acquaintances [far from my] darkness.

A brother who is offended [is worse] than a city of strength, and quarrels [are] like the bars of a fortification.

He will suffer trouble when he loans to a stranger, but he who refuses a pledge is safe.

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

Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.

And [when he] returns to [his] home, he calls together [his] friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!'

And then many will be led into sin and will betray one another and will hate one another,

"I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the scattered, and I will bind [up] the one hurt, and I will strengthen the sick; and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed her with justice."

Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his [own] place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.

so [is] a man who deceives his neighbor, but says "Am I not joking?"

Or what woman who has ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds [it]?

Death and life [are] in the {power} of the tongue, and those who love her will eat of her 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 person to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

And [when] {his family} heard [this], they went out to restrain him, for they were saying, "He has lost his mind!"

And Amaziah said to the man of God, "Now what [should I] do with the one hundred talents that I have given to the troops of Israel?" And the man of God said, "{Yahweh is able to give} to you more than this."

Therefore encourage one another and build up {each other}, just as indeed you are doing.

[If] you faint on the day of adversity, little [is] your strength.

And [when she] has found [it], she calls together [her] friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found the drachma that I had lost!'

And [when he] heard [it], Jesus said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

In the [same] way it is not the will {of} your Father [who is] in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

Then Job died old and full of days.

And all these [things] [are] from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

I know what I should do, so that when I am removed from the management they will welcome me into their homes!'

The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.

Therefore, dear friends, [because you] know [this] beforehand, guard yourselves so that you do not lose your own safe position [because you] have been led away by the error of lawless persons.

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

And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not with a fully-devoted heart.

Even {my close friend}, whom I trusted, [who] ate my bread, has lifted [his] heel against me.

Now the female donkeys of Kish the father of Saul got lost, and Kish said to Saul his son, "Please take one of the servants with you and get up; go and seek the female donkeys."

{I am distressed} over you, my brother Jonathan. you [were] very dear to me; your love [was] more wonderful to me than the love of women.

My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.

So the sisters sent [word] to him, saying, "Lord, behold, [the one] whom you love is sick."

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

But even still, you yourself go, do! Be strong for the battle [else] God will make you stumble before the enemy! For there is power with God to help and to cause stumbling."

Yahweh [is] near to [those who are] heartbroken and saves [those who are] crushed in spirit.

Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants 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 wife or children or fields on account of my name will receive a hundred times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

So Jesus then said to them plainly, "Lazarus has died,

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save those who are 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 fields on account of me and on account of the gospel

And he told them a parable to [show that] they must always pray and not be discouraged,