26 Bible Verses about Losing Friends

Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or houses for my name's sake will get a hundred times as much and inherit life eternal.

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

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

And many will be repelled then, they will betray one another and hate one another.

and when he gets home he gathers his friends and neighbours: 'Rejoice with me,' he says to them, 'for I have found the sheep I lost.'

And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, let me have three loaves;

and the scripture was fulfilled: Abraham believed God, and this was counted to him as righteousness ??he was called God's friend.

Or again, suppose a woman has ten shillings. If she loses one of them, does she not light a lamp and scour the house and search carefully till she finds it?

My brothers, if anyone of you goes astray from the truth and someone brings him back,

(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.

Ah, I know what I will do, so that people will welcome me to their houses when I am deposed from the factorship.'

So it is not the will of your Father in heaven that a single one of these little ones should be lost.

He said to them, "I tell you truly, no one has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the Realm of God,

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

never let your zeal flag; maintain the spiritual glow; serve the Lord;

Encourage one another, therefore, and let each edify the other ??as indeed you are doing.

When I was with them, I kept them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me; I guarded them, and not one of them perished ??only the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Now, beloved, you are forewarned: mind you are not carried away by the error of the lawless and so lose your proper footing;

But he answered, "My mother and brothers are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

It is all the doing of the God who has reconciled me to himself through Christ and has permitted me to be a minister of his reconciliation.

What profit is it for a man to gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul?

I tell you, though he will not get up and give you anything because you are a friend of his, he will at least rise and give you whatever you want, because you persist.

Jesus said, "I tell you truly, no one has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,

Salt is excellent: but if salt is tasteless, how are you to restore its flavour? Let there be 'salt between you'; be at peace with one another."

And when she finds it she gathers her women-friends and neighbours, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the shilling I lost.'

We would like you, brothers, to understand about those who are asleep in death. You must not grieve for them, like the rest of men who have no hope.