Written by Pastor Jack WellmanTop 16 Bible Verses About Losing Friends
Typically it’s not fun losing a friend but sometimes it’s for the best. Although they may not be your friend anymore, we need not show anger towards them. If they betrayed you, don’t hold a grudge. It’s our job as Believers to forgive them. and let God take care of it.
Here are our top 16 Bible verses about losing friends!
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All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
- Job 19:19
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if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,
- Psalm 7:4
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Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;
- Micah 7:5
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He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.
- Job 17:5
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David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in friendship to help me, my heart will be joined to you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you.”
- 1 Chronicles 12:17
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Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying, “‘Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the mud, they turn away from you.’
- Jeremiah 38:22
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who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
- Psalm 15:3
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Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
- Proverbs 17:9
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Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.
- Proverbs 27:10
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Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
- Psalm 41:9
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You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
- James 4:4
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Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
- Proverbs 27:6
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Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
- Proverbs 22:24
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A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
- Proverbs 18:24
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A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
- Proverbs 17:17
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Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
- John 15:13
We hope these verses gave you some encouragement to find the right friends and let go of the heartache the former friends may have caused. Don’t forget to share this page!
