49 Bible Verses about Losing A Friend

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his holy ones.

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

"I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

The LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

"I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but 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 on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"

Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, would not light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

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

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

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 take charge of him: for they said, "He is out of his mind."

Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do for the hundred talents which 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 exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.'

But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it."

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

So Job died, being old and full of days.

But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.'

He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

He said to them, "Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,

He did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

The donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, "Take now one of the servants with you, and arise, go seek the donkeys."

I grieve for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, look, the one you love is sick."

For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

But if you will go, take action, be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow."

The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead.

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

Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,