46 Bible Verses about Losing Friends

Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"

He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

"I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness. A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.

When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'

He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.

Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, 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 a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

"It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

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

But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

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

I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

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

Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot.

that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.

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

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.'

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

But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.