49 Bible Verses about Losing A Friend

Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart,

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 farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake,

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

So Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
And saves those who are crushed in spirit.

But if you do go, do it, be strong for the battle; yet God will bring you down before the enemy, for God has power to help and to bring down.”

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

So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”

My heart throbs, my strength fails me;
And the light of my eyes, even that has gone from me.

“I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;
You have been very pleasant to me.
Your love to me was more wonderful
Than the love of women.

Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. So Kish said to his son Saul, “Take now with you one of the servants, and arise, go search for the donkeys.”

Even my close friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has lifted up his heel against me.

He did right in the sight of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart.

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,

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness,

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

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

Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,

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

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

But when Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.”

When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost!’

If you are slack in the day of distress,
Your strength is limited.

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

Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the troops of Israel?” And the man of God answered, “The Lord has much more to give you than this.”

When His own people heard of this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He has lost His senses.”

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

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

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

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

So is the man who deceives his neighbor,
And says, “Was I not joking?”

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one 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 comfort him.

“I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.

At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.

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 which was lost!’

The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold.

Then He 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;

He who is guarantor for a stranger will surely suffer for it,
But he who hates being a guarantor is secure.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city,
And contentions are like the bars of a citadel.

You have removed lover and friend far from me;
My acquaintances are in darkness.

“I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back,

Precious in the sight of the Lord
Is the death of His godly ones.

He who conceals a transgression seeks love,
But he who repeats a matter separates intimate friends.

The righteous is a guide to his neighbor,
But the way of the wicked leads them astray.

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.

A man of too many friends comes to ruin,
But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.