Bible Verses About Abandoning Friends
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for abandoning friends, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,159 votes, led by Proverbs 18:24. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Abandoning Friends
Proverbs 18:24301 votes
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 27:10268 votes
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs 17:17193 votes
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Psalms 41:9130 votes
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Psalms 55:12-14124 votes
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
Proverbs 19:4105 votes
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Matthew 26:31-3594 votes
Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
Proverbs 14:2085 votes
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
John 15:1374 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
1 Corinthians 15:3366 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Job 19:1464 votes
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Psalms 27:1064 votes
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
1 Corinthians 5:1159 votes
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
2 Timothy 4:1658 votes
At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
1 Samuel 20:1753 votes
And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
2 John 1:10-1150 votes
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
Matthew 18:12-1749 votes
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
Psalms 38:1146 votes
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
John 15:13-1545 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Proverbs 19:742 votes
All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
Luke 22:47-4842 votes
And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.
Psalms 83:1840 votes
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth.
Proverbs 13:2038 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Job 19:13-1937 votes
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
Proverbs 19:6-733 votes
Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
What does the Bible say about abandoning friends?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 18:24 on the subject of abandoning friends. Across 3,159 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 27:10, Proverbs 17:17, Psalms 41:9. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.