42 Bible Verses about Best Friends

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

All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.

Believe ye not in a companion, put not confidence in a familiar friend: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

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

But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my familiar friend. ...

No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.

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

A false man soweth contention; and a talebearer separateth very friends.

Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you.

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; and the sweetness of one's friend is the fruit of hearty counsel.

Thou hast put my familiar friends far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

He that covereth transgression seeketh love; but he that bringeth a matter up again separateth very friends.

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

The righteous guideth his neighbour; but the way of the wicked misleadeth them.

A man of many friends will come to ruin but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

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

The secret of Jehovah is with them that fear him, that he may make known his covenant to them.

Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.

And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called Friend of God.

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander.

And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that was come upon him. And they came each one from his place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to condole with him and to comfort him.

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

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,

My lovers and mine associates stand aloof from my stroke; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man;

I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.

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

He that loveth pureness of heart, upon whose lips is grace, the king is his friend.

All the brethren of a poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him: he pursueth them with words, they are not to be found.

For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified himself against me then would I have hidden myself from him;

He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices in heart because of the voice of the bridegroom: this my joy then is fulfilled.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Iron is sharpened by iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

He that walketh with wise men becometh wise; but a companion of the foolish will be depraved.

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

And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles.

We who held sweet intercourse together. To the house of God we walked amid the throng.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and contentions are as the bars of a palace.

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

And Pilate and Herod became friends with one another the same day, for they had been at enmity before between themselves.

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