46 Bible Verses about Losing Friends
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A righteous man is careful in dealing with his neighbor,
but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.
A man with many friends may be harmed,
but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
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And everyone who has left houses, brothers or sisters, father or mother, children, or fields because of My name will receive 100 times more and will inherit eternal life.
Anyone finding his life will lose it, and anyone losing his life because of Me will find it.
Even my friend in whom I trusted,
one who ate my bread,
has raised his heel against me.
If someone puts up security for a stranger,
he will suffer for it,
but the one who hates such agreements is protected.
“And I say to you, My friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.
Then many will take offense, betray one another and hate one another.
and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’
He also 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 of bread,
If you do nothing in a difficult time,
your strength is limited.
So the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness, and he was called God’s friend.
“Or what woman who has 10 silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?
An offended brother is harder to reach
than a fortified city,
and quarrels are like the bars of a fortress.
Whoever conceals an offense promotes love,
but whoever gossips about it separates friends.
Adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.
I know what I’ll do so that when I’m removed from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’
In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones perish.
“It’s worthless, it’s worthless!” the buyer says,
but after he is on his way, he gloats.
So He said to them, “I assure you: There is no one who has left a house, wife or brothers, parents or children because of the kingdom of God,
You will even be betrayed by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will kill some of you.
Do not lack diligence; be fervent in spirit; serve the Lord.
After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his prosperity and doubled his previous possessions.
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up as you are already doing.
While I was with them,
I was protecting them by Your name
that You have given Me.
I guarded them and not one of them is lost,
except the son of destruction,
so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.
Therefore, dear friends, since you know this in advance, be on your guard, so that you are not led away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own stability.
But He replied to them, “My mother and My brothers are those who hear and do the word of God.”
Everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
I tell you, even though he won’t get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his friend’s persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.
“I assure you,” Jesus said, “there is no one who has left house, brothers or sisters, mother or father, children, or fields because of Me and the gospel,
Trusting an unreliable person in a difficult time
is like a rotten tooth or a faltering foot.
that is, to be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.
Salt is good, but if the salt should lose its flavor, how can you make it salty? Have salt among yourselves and be at peace with one another.”
The secret counsel of the Lord
is for those who fear Him,
and He reveals His covenant to them.
When she finds it, she calls her women friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the silver coin I lost!’
Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very intense.
We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
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