Love & Relationships
Bible Verses About abandoning friends
14 key scriptures
Explore what the Bible says about abandoning friends. This collection of 14 key Scripture passages reveals God's wisdom and guidance on this important theme.
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| Translation | Key Verse: Proverbs 18:24 |
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| King James (KJV) | “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” |
14 Key Scriptures
“A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”
“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.”
“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
“Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. mine: Heb. the man of my peace lifted: Heb. magnified”
Psalms 41:9KJV
“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:”
Psalms 55:12KJV
“Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.”
“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.”
“The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends. the rich: Heb. many are the lovers of the rich”
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
John 15:13KJV
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
“My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.”
Job 19:14KJV
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. take: Heb. gather me”
Psalms 27:10KJV
“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.”
“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.”
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