46 Bible Verses about Losing Friends
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The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor, but the way of the wicked seduces them.
A man who has friends may be broken up, but there is a Lover who sticks closer than a brother.
And everyone who left 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 who finds his life shall lose it. And he who loses his life for My sake shall find it.
Even a man, my friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
He who is surety for a stranger shall be ruined; and he who hates suretyship is safe.
And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.
And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.
And He said to them, which of you shall have a friend and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves,
If you faint in the day of trial, your strength is small.
And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God."
Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does she not light a lamp and sweep the house, and seek carefully until she finds it?
A brother offended is like a strong city; and their disagreements are like the bars of a fortress.
He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends.
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
I know what I will do, so 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 in Heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
And He said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no one who has left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children for the sake of the kingdom of God,
And you shall be betrayed also by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends. And they will cause some of you to be put to death.
As to diligence, not slothful, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Also Jehovah added to Job all that had been his, to double.
Therefore comfort one another, and edify one another, even as you also do.
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those that You have given Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Therefore, beloved, knowing beforehand, beware lest being led away with the error of the lawless, you fall from your own steadfastness.
And He answered and said to them, My mother and My brothers are those who hear the Word of God and do it.
And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will arise and give him as many as he needs.
And Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, and they each one came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had met together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
And Jesus answered and said, Truly I say to 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 sake,
Trust in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
And this is to be comforted together with you by our mutual faith, both yours and mine.
Salt is good; but if the salt becomes saltless, with what will you season? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.
My heart pants; my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
And when she has found it, she calls her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.
And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights. And no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.
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