27 Bible Verses about Losing Friends

And whoever has forsaken houses, or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or children or lands, for my sake, shall receive many times as much and shall have as his inheritance the Life of the Ages.

To save your life is to lose it, and to lose your life for my sake is to save it.

"But to you who are my friends I say, "'Be not afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do nothing further.

Then will many stumble and fall, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

Then coming home he calls his friends and neighbours together, and says, 'Congratulate me, for I have found my sheep--the one I had lost.'

And He said to them, "Which of you shall have a friend and shall go to him in the middle of the night and say, "'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread;

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And Abraham believed God, and his faith was placed to his credit as righteousness," and he received the name of 'God's friend.'

"Or what woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully till she finds it?

My brethren, if one of you strays from the truth and some one brings him back,

You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

I see what to do, in order that when I am discharged from the stewardship they may give me a home in their own houses.'

Just so it is not the will of your Father in Heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.

"I solemnly tell you," replied Jesus, "that there is no one who has left house or wife, or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of God's Kingdom,

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, friends; and some of you they will put to death.

Do not be indolent when zeal is required. Be thoroughly warm-hearted, the Lord's own servants,

Therefore encourage one another, and let each one help to strengthen his friend, as in fact you do.

While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name--the name Thou hast given me to bear--and I kept watch over them, and not one of them is lost but only he who is doomed to destruction--that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

You, therefore, dear friends, having been warned beforehand, must continually be on your guard so as not to be led astray by the false teaching of immoral men nor fall from your own stedfastness.

"My mother and my brothers," He replied, "are these who hear God's Message and obey it."

And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and has appointed us to serve in the ministry of reconciliation.

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

"I tell you that even if he will not rise and give him the loaves because he is his friend, at any rate because of his persistency he will rouse himself and give him as many as he requires.

"In solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that there is no one who has forsaken house or brothers or sisters, or mother or father, or children or lands, for my sake and for the sake of the Good News,

in other words that while I am among you we may be mutually encouraged by one another's faith, yours and mine.

Salt is a good thing, but if the salt should become tasteless, what will you use to give it saltness? Have salt within you and live at peace with one another."

And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, and says, "'Congratulate me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'

Now, concerning those who from time to time pass away, we would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, lest you should mourn as others do who have no hope.