42 Bible Verses about Best Friends

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

All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

Trust ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend.

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

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; But the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

A perverse man scattereth abroad strife; And a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.

Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; So doth the sweetness of a man's friend that cometh of hearty counsel.

Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; But he that harpeth on a matter separateth chief friends.

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

The righteous is a guide to his neighbor; But the way of the wicked causeth them to err.

He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Wealth addeth many friends; But the poor is separated from his friend.

The friendship of Jehovah is with them that fear him; And he will show them his covenant.

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.

and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;

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

Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:

No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.

Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can find?

He that loveth pureness of heart, For the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much more do his friends go far from him! He pursueth them with words, but they are gone.

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:

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, that standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is made full.

Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up.

And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it shall fail, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.

We took sweet counsel together; We walked in the house of God with the throng.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; And'such contentions are like the bars of a castle.

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day: for before they were at enmity between themselves.

He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, It shall be counted a curse to him.