27 Bible Verses about Losing Friends

And anyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or land for my sake will receive many times as much, and share eternal life.

Whoever gains his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will gain it.

I tell you, who are my friends, have no fear of those who kill the body, and after that can do no more.

Then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

and when he reaches home, he calls in his friends and neighbors, and says to them, 'Congratulate me, for I have found my lost sheep!'

And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and goes to him in the middle of the night, and says to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves,

and so the Scripture came true that says, "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness, and he was called God's friend."

Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one, does not light the lamp and sweep the house and look carefully until she finds it?

My brothers, if any one of you is led astray from the truth, and someone brings him back,

You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy.

I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from my position people will take me into their homes.'

In just that way, it is the will of my Father in heaven that not a single one of these children be lost.

And he said to them, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the Kingdom of God

You will be betrayed even by your parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends and they will put some of you to death,

not wanting in devotion, but on fire with the Spirit. Serve the Lord.

Therefore encourage one another and strengthen one another, just as you are doing.

As long as I was with them I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost (except the one who was destined to be lost), so that what the Scripture says might come true.

So you, dear friends, now that you are forewarned, must be on your guard against being led away by the errors of unprincipled men and losing your present firmness.

He answered, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and obey it!"

All this comes from God, who through Christ has reconciled me to himself, and has commissioned me to proclaim this reconciliation??19 how God through Christ reconciled the world to himself, refusing to count men's offenses against them, and intrusted me with the message of reconciliation.

For what good does it do a man to gain the whole world and yet part with his life?

I tell you, even if he will not get up and give him some because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rouse himself and give him all he needs.

Jesus said, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or land for me and for the good news,

in other words, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by one another's faith.

Salt is a good thing, but if salt loses its strength, what will you use to season it? You must have salt within you, and live in peace with one another."

And when she finds it, she calls in her friends and neighbors, and says to them, 'Congratulate me, for I have found the coin that I lost!'

We do not want you to be under any misapprehension, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not grieve for them, as others do who have no hope.