Bible Verses about “abandoning friends”
The Bible contains 20 verses about abandoning friends across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
“‹Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.›”
“¶ A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
“¶ A man [that hath] friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother.”
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.”
“But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.”
“¶ At my first answer no man stood with me, but all [men] forsook me: [I pray God] that it may not be laid to their charge.”
“Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.”
“Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: [for] better [is] a neighbour [that is] near than a brother far off.”
“For [it was] not an enemy [that] reproached me; then I could have borne [it]: neither [was it] he that hated me [that] did magnify [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself from him:”
“But [it was] thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.”
“We took sweet counsel together, [and] walked unto the house of God in company.”
“¶ Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.”
“¶ The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich [hath] many friends.”
“Jesus said unto him, ‹Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.›”
“¶ Then saith Jesus unto them, ‹All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.›”
“‹But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.›”
“Peter answered and said unto him, Though all [men] shall be offended because of thee, [yet] will I never be offended.”
“Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.”
“My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.”