Bible Verses about “losing friends”
The Bible contains 27 verses about losing friends across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
“The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
“[The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.”
“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
“And he said unto me, ‹My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.› Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
“Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.”
“He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.”
“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
“¶ 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.”
“‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.›”
“¶ ‹If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.›”
“A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.”
“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.”
“‹Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.›”
“Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.”
“‹But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.›”
“‹If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.›”
“‹He that hateth me hateth my Father also.›”
“¶ Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.”
“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.”
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;”
“Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?”
“‹And ye shall be hated of all› [men] ‹for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.›”