Bible Verses About Losing Friends
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for losing friends, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,454 votes, led by Psalms 34:17-20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Losing Friends
Psalms 34:17-20377 votes
The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Proverbs 18:24377 votes
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
John 15:18-23340 votes
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
Proverbs 27:4-6158 votes
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
2 Corinthians 12:9133 votes
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Matthew 10:22121 votes
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Philippians 4:19109 votes
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
1 Corinthians 15:3397 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Proverbs 17:1785 votes
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
1 John 1:980 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Romans 8:1875 votes
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
James 4:769 votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
2 Corinthians 4:16-1862 votes
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Colossians 2:862 votes
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Proverbs 16:2860 votes
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 27:1753 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Philippians 3:1350 votes
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Job 6:1446 votes
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Matthew 28:2046 votes
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Proverbs 27:642 votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Romans 8:142 votes
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Psalms 41:941 votes
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
John 15:1337 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Matthew 5:434 votes
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Proverbs 12:2633 votes
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
What does the Bible say about losing friends?
Readers most often cite Psalms 34:17-20 on the subject of losing friends. Across 3,454 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 18:24, John 15:18-23, Proverbs 27:4-6. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.