How do we overcome loneliness?

Summary: A verse by verse examination of what the Bible teaches about overcoming loneliness.

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John 16:25-33 ( KJV ) ²⁵These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father.  ²⁶At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:  ²⁷For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. ²⁸I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.  ²⁹His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.  ³⁰Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.  ³¹Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?  ³²Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.  ³³These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Genesis 2:18-25 ( KJV ) ¹⁸And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.  ¹⁹And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.  ²⁰And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. ²¹And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;  ²²And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.  ²³And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.  ²⁴Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.  ²⁵And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Psalms 66:18 ( KJV ) ¹⁸    If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

Proverbs 15:29 ( KJV ) ²⁹The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

Isaiah 59:1-3 ( KJV ) ¹Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:  ²But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.  ³For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

1 Peter 3:7 ( KJV ) ⁷Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Ephesians 1:9-10 ( KJV ) ⁹Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:  ¹⁰That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
1 John 1:4-7 ( KJV ) ⁴And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. ⁵This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.  ⁶If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:  ⁷But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Ephesians 4:17-18 ( KJV ) ¹⁷This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,  ¹⁸Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

1 John 2:4-6 ( KJV ) ⁴He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.  ⁵But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.  ⁶He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Acts 2:42 ( KJV ) ⁴²And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ( KJV ) ¹⁴Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?  ¹⁵And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?  ¹⁶And 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.  ¹⁷Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,  ¹⁸And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Philippians 1:3-9 ( KJV ) ³I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,  ⁴Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,  ⁵For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;  ⁶Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: ⁷Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.  ⁸For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. ⁹And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

Philippians 2:1-12 ( KJV ) ¹If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,  ²Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.  ³Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.  ⁴Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.  ⁵Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:  ⁶Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:  ⁷But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:  ⁸And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.  ⁹Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:  ¹⁰That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;  ¹¹And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. ¹²Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.