46 Bible Verses about Losing Friends
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A man of many friends will come to ruin but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
And every one who has left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit life eternal.
He that finds his life shall lose it, and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I confided, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
It goeth ill with him that is surety for another; but he that hateth suretyship is secure.
But I say to you, my friends, Fear not those who kill the body and after this have no more that they can do.
And then will many be offended, and will deliver one another up, and hate one another;
and being come to the house, calls together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep.
And he said to them, Who among you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, let me have three loaves,
If thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.
And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called 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 carefully till she find it?
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and contentions are as the bars of a palace.
He that covereth transgression seeketh love; but he that bringeth a matter up again separateth very friends.
Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be the friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.
I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.
So it is not the will of your Father who is in the heavens that one of these little ones should perish.
And he said to them, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left home, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,
But ye will be delivered up even by parents and brethren and relations and friends, and they shall put to death some from among you,
as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.
And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Wherefore encourage one another, and build up each one the other, even as also ye do.
When I was with them I kept them in thy name; those thou hast given me I have guarded, and not one of them has perished, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.
Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things before, take care lest, being led away along with the error of the wicked, ye should fall from your own stedfastness:
But he answering said to them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and do it.
and all things are of the God who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation:
For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?
I say to you, Although he will not get up and give them to him because he is his friend, because of his shamelessness, at any rate, he will rise and give him as many as he wants.
And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that was come upon him. And they came each one from his place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to condole with him and to comfort him.
Jesus answering said, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,
A broken tooth, and a tottering foot, is confidence in an unfaithful man in the day of trouble.
that is, to have mutual comfort among you, each by the faith which is in the other, both yours and mine.
Salt is good, but if the salt is become saltless, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.
My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me.
The secret of Jehovah is with them that fear him, that he may make known his covenant to them.
and having found it she calls together the friends and neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.
And they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights; and none spoke a word to him; for they saw that his anguish was very great.
But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.
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