46 Bible Verses about Losing Friends

Wealth adds many friends, but a poor man is separated from his friend.

A righteous man is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked causes them to err.

He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

And every man who has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, because of my name, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life.

He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life because of me will find it.

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

so is the man who deceives his neighbor, and says, Am I not in sport?

He who is surety for a stranger shall smart for it, but he who hates suretyship is secure.

And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of those who kill the body, and after these things not having anything more severe to do.

And then many will be caused to stumble, and they will betray each other and will hate each other.

Thou have put beloved and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.

And when he comes to the house, he calls together his men friends and his men neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.

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

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

And the scripture was fulfilled, which says, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness, and he was called a friend of God.

Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she finds it?

A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city, and [such] contentions are like the bars of a castle.

Brothers, if any man among you may be led astray from the truth, and some man converts him,

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates chief friends.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge. I am understanding, I have might.

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

So, it is not a purpose before your Father in the heavens, that one of these little ones should perish.

Many will entreat the favor of a generous man, and every man is a friend to him who gives gifts.

It is bad, it is bad, says the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

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

And ye will be betrayed even by parents, and kinsmen, and friends, and brothers. And some of you they will condemn to death.

not lazy in diligence, being fervent in the Spirit serving the Lord,

And LORD turned [back] the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. And LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Therefore encourage each other, and build ye up one by one, just as ye also are doing.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name. Whom thou gave to me, I kept, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of destruction, so that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Ye therefore, beloved, knowing in advance, keep watch, lest, having accommodated to the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own steadfastness.

But having answered, he said to them, My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.

And all things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and who gave to us the ministry of reconciliation.

For what will it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?

I say to you, though he will not give him, after getting up, because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, having awaken, he will give him as many as he needs.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that came upon him, they came each one from his own place--Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite--and they made an appointment together to come t

And having answered, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, there is no man who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, because of me, and because of the good-news,

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

and that is, to be mutually encouraged among you through each other's faith, both yours and mine.

The salt material is good, but if the salt material becomes saltless, by what will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace among each other.

My heart throbs, my strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

The friendship of LORD is with those who fear him, and he will show them his covenant.

And when she has found it, she calls together her lady friends and lady neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, because I found the drachma that I lost.

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights. And none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.