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.
“Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."”
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
“A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.”
“A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.”
“But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.”
“At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.”
“Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.”
“Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.”
“For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.”
“But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.”
“We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's house with company.”
“Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.”
“The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.”
“Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."”
“Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'”
“But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."”
“But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble."”
“Peter said to him, "Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you." All of the disciples also said likewise.”
“My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.”