Abandoning friends

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• Proverbs 18:24

  A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

• Proverbs 27:10

  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 17:17

  A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

• Psalms 41:9

  Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

• Psalms 55:12–14

  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: But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

• Proverbs 19:4

  Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

• Matthew 26:31–35

  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. But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee. Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended. …

• Proverbs 14:20

  The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

• John 15:13

  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

• 1 Corinthians 15:33

  Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

• Job 19:14

  My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

• Psalms 27:10

  When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

• 1 Corinthians 5:11

  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 4:16

  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 20:17

  And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

• 2 John 1:10–11

  If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

• Matthew 18:12–17

  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? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. …

• Psalms 38:11

  My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

• John 15:13–15

  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

• Luke 22:47–48

  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. But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?

• Proverbs 19:7

  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.

• Psalms 83:18

  That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

• Job 19:13–19

  He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. …

• Proverbs 13:20

  He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

• Proverbs 19:6–7

  Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts. 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.

• Proverbs 27:6

  Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

• Ecclesiastes 4:9–10

  Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

• Matthew 9:11–13

  And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

• Revelation 2:4

  Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

• Matthew 26:56

  But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

• Job 19:13–14

  He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

• Proverbs 16:28

  A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

• Hebrews 13:5

  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

• Luke 17:3–4

  Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

• 2 Corinthians 6:14–18

  Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. …

• Job 6:14

  To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

• Joshua 22:3

  Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.

• Genesis 2:18

  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

• 2 Timothy 3:16

  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

• Job 19:19

  All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.