27 Bible Verses about Losing A Friend

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

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

"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.

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;

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.'

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

"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?

"I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes in me, even if he has died, he shall live;

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

Hearing of this, His relatives came to seize Him by force, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

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

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.'

Jesus received the message and said, "This illness is not to end in death, but is to promote the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified by it."

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

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.

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.'

He who holds his life dear, is destroying it; and he who makes his life of no account in this world shall keep it to the Life of the Ages.

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.

"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,

So the sisters sent to Him to say, "Master, he whom you hold dear is ill."

For if their having been cast aside has carried with it the reconciliation of the world, what will their being accepted again be but Life out of death?

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.

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.

So then He told them plainly,

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."

"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,

He also taught them by a parable that they must always pray and never lose heart.