46 Bible Verses about Losing Friends

Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.

The righteous searcheth his companion, And the way of the wicked causeth them to err.

A man with friends is to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

'He who found his life shall lose it, and he who lost his life for my sake shall find it.

Even mine ally, in whom I trusted, One eating my bread, made great the heel against me,

So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, 'Am not I playing?'

Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.

'And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these things are not having anything over to do;

and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

Thou hast put far from me lover and friend, Mine acquaintance is the place of darkness!

and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep -- the lost one.

And he said unto them, 'Who of you shall have a friend, and shall go on unto him at midnight, and may say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves,

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, 'And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;' and, 'Friend of God' he was called.

'Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?

A brother transgressed against is as a strong city, And contentions as the bar of a palace.

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,

Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

Mine is counsel and substance, I am understanding, I have might.

I have known what I shall do, that, when I may be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me to their houses.

so it is not will in presence of your Father who is in the heavens, that one of these little ones may perish.

Many entreat the face of the noble, And all have made friendship to a man of gifts.

'Bad, bad,' saith the buyer, And going his way then he boasteth himself.

and he said to them, 'Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God,

'And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;

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

And Jehovah hath turned to the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends, and Jehovah doth add to all that Job hath -- to double.

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.

Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,

and he answering said unto them, 'My mother and my brethren! they are those who the word of God are hearing, and doing.'

And the all things are of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,

for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

'I say to you, even if he will not give to him, having risen, because of his being his friend, yet because of his importunity, having risen, he will give him as many as he doth need;

And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite -- and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;

And Jesus answering said, 'Verily I say to you, there is no one who left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my sake, and for the good news',

A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, Is the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity.

and that is, that I may be comforted together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.

The salt is good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will ye season it? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.'

My heart is panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.

The secret of Jehovah is for those fearing Him, And His covenant -- to cause them to know.

and having found, she doth call together the female friends and the neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I found the drachm that I lost.

And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven nights, and there is none speaking unto him a word when they have seen that the pain hath been very great.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,