27 Bible Verses about Losing Friends

and every one that abandons his family, his brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake, shall receive in that age an hundred times the value, and shall inherit hereafter everlasting life.

he that would preserve his life, shall lose it: and he that exposeth his life for my sake, shall save it.

As for you, my friends, be not afraid of those, who can kill the body, and after that can effect nothing more.

then shall many relapse, and shall pursue one another with mutual treachery and hatred.

and when he comes home, call his friends and neighbours together, and say to them, rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep, that was lost?

Then he said to them, suppose any of you should go to his friend at midnight; and say to him, friend, lend me three loaves:

it was then, that those words of scripture were accomplished, "Abraham believed God, and he was regarded for it as a man of virtue, and was the favourite of God."

or if a woman, that has ten pieces of money, should lose one of them, will she not light a lamp, sweep the house, and carefully search, till she find it?

My brethren, when any of you deviates from the truth, whoever sets him right, may be assured,

Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God.

I must do something that will secure me a reception in other families, when I have lost my place in this.

in like manner your heavenly father would not that any person of such humility should be lost.

Jesus answer'd, I declare unto you, no one has ever quitted house or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, upon account of the gospel-dispensation,

you will be betrayed even by your very parents, and brethren, and kindred, and friends. nay, some of you they will prosecute even to death.

in business be not slothful, but of an active mind, making the best use of every incident.

wherefore comfort and edify one another, as you have hitherto done.

by your authority I have kept them, during my being with them in the world: those that you gave me I have kept, and not one of them is lost, except the son of perdition: according as the scripture foretold.

Do you then, my dear brethren, being thus forewarn'd, take care not to be seduc'd by those prophane impostors, and so lose the reward of your constancy.

but he answered them, my mother and brethren are these, who attend to the word of God, and practise it.

Now this is all owing to God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath made us the ministers of this reconciliation;

what advantage is it for a man to gain the whole world with the loss of his life?

I tell you, tho' he will not rise, to supply him, out of friendship: yet out of regard to his importunity, he will rise, and lend him whatever he has occasion for.

Jesus answered him, I declare unto you, there is not a man who has forsaken his house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, out of love to me and to the gospel,

or indeed that we may have mutual consolation from the faith which is in common to you and to me.

salt is good, but if the salt become insipid, how shall it recover its savour? don't lose your seasoning, nor your peaceable behaviour to one another.

and when 'tis found, will she not call her friends aud neighbours together, and say, rejoice with me, for I have found the piece, I had lost?

Now I would not have you, my brethren, be mistaken about the state of the dead, lest you should be as greatly afflicted as those, who have no hope.