46 Bible Verses about Losing Friends

Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor.

The righteous chooses his friends carefully: but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

And everyone that has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

He that finds his life shall lose it: and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it.

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

So is the man that deceives his neighbor, and says, Am I not jesting?

He that is surety for a stranger shall suffer for it: and he that hates being surety is secure.

And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

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

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

And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

Or what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she loses one piece, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she finds it?

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

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

He that covers over a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates close friends.

You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

I have decided what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

Many will entreat the favor of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that gives gifts.

It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that has left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

And you shall be betrayed both by parents, and brothers, and kinsfolk, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

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

Therefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also you do.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name: those that you gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things beforehand, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.

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

And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own life?

I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give to him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needs.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,

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

That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

Salt is good: but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.

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

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

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.