46 Bible Verses about Losing Friends

Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"

Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.

"I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.

And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.

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 that was lost.'

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

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"--and he was called a friend of God.

"Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?

A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.

My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

I have counsel and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength.

I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.'

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

Many seek the favor of a generous man, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

"Bad, bad," says the buyer, but when he goes away, then he boasts.

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 will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit,serve the Lord.

And the LORDrestored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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

While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.

But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;

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

I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.

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 lands, for my sake and for the gospel,

Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.

that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes--it also has gone from me.

The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.

And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.'

And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

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