23 Bible Verses about Friendlessness
Most Relevant Verses
You cause my friends and neighbors to keep their distance; those who know me leave me alone in the darkness.
You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.
I stay awake; I am like a solitary bird on a roof.
Look to the right and see! No one cares about me. I have nowhere to run; no one is concerned about my life.
Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering -- those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me. I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.
Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.
"He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me. My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me. My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.read more.
I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth. My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers. Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me. All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.
They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
For I hear what so many are saying, the terrifying news that comes from every direction. When they plot together against me, they figure out how they can take my life.
I hear many whispering words of intrigue against me. Those who would cause me terror are everywhere! They are saying, "Come on, let's publicly denounce him!" All my so-called friends are just watching for something that would lead to my downfall. They say, "Perhaps he can be enticed into slipping up, so we can prevail over him and get our revenge on him.
He answered, "I have been absolutely loyal to the Lord, the sovereign God, even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life."
Then all the disciples left him and fled.
He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.
But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled.
Look, a time is coming -- and has come -- when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.
He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me."
At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me -- may they not be held accountable for it.
For Demas deserted me, since he loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is a great help to me in ministry.
The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him."
When David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life.
"There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
