27 Bible Verses about Losing A Friend

He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

My brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,

"I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

And he said to them, "Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves;

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.'

And then many will fall away, and will betray one another, and hate one another.

"Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live;

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?

When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'

When Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;

I have decided what to do, so that people may receive me into their houses when I am put out of the stewardship.'

He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your own steadfastness.

So he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is sick."

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.

So then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead;

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."

Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,

Then he told them a parable, to show that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.