42 Bible Verses about Best Friends

As for my best friend, the one in whom I trusted, the one who ate my bread, even he has insulted me!

My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me.

Don't trust your friends, don't confide in a companion, watch what you say to your wife.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is there for times of trouble.

but it is you a man whom I treated as my equal my personal confidant, my close friend!

No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.

Wounds from someone who loves are trustworthy, but kisses from an enemy speak volumes.

A deceitful man stirs dissension, and anyone who gossips separates friends.

You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

Ointments and perfume encourage the heart; in a similar way, a friend's advice is sweet to the soul.

You caused my acquaintances to shun me; you make me extremely abhorrent to them. Restrained, I am unable to go out.

Anyone who overlooks an offense promotes love, but someone who gossips separates close friends.

my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me.

The righteous person is cautious with respect to his neighbor, but the lifestyle of the wicked leads them astray.

A man with many friends can still be ruined, but a true friend sticks closer than a brother.

Wealth brings many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

The intimate counsel of the LORD is for those who fear him so they may know his covenant.

You caused my friend and neighbor to shun me; and my acquaintances are confused. An instruction. By Ethan, the Ezrahite

And so the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." And so he was called God's friend.

Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

"Beware of your neighbors, and don't trust any of your relatives. For all of your relatives act deceitfully, and every friend goes around as a slanderer.

When Job's three friends heard all these tragedies that happened to him, they each traveled from their home towns to visit him. Eliphaz came from Teman, Bildad came from Shuah, and Zophar came from Naamath. They met together and went to console and comfort him.

Never abandon your friend nor your father's friend, and don't go to your brother's house in times of trouble. A neighbor who is near is better than a brother who lives far away.

like when I was in my prime and God trusted me with his secrets!

As for my friends and my neighbors, they stand aloof from my distress; even my close relatives stand at a distance.

Don't make friends with a hot-tempered man, and do not associate with someone who is easily angered,

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

Many claim "I'm a loyal person!" but who can find someone who truly is?

Whoever loves purity and gracious speech will gain the king as his friend.

All the relatives of a poor person shun him how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he runs after them pleading, they aren't around.

For it is not an enemy who insults me I could have handled that nor is it someone who hates me and who now arises against me I could have hidden myself from him

It is the bridegroom who gets the bride, yet the bridegroom's friend, who merely stands by and listens for him, is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom's voice. That's why this joy of mine is now complete.

Stop being deceived: "Wicked friends lead to evil ends."

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens a friend's character.

Whoever keeps company with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.

If they stumble, the first will lift up his friend but woe to anyone who is alone when he falls and there is no one to help him get up.

"I'm telling you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails, they will welcome you into eternal homes.

We had good fellowship together; and we even walked together in the house of God!

An offended brother is more unyielding than a fortified city, and his disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

When David finished speaking with Saul, Jonathan became a close friend to David, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

So Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day. Before this they had been enemies.

A friend's loud blessing early in the morning will be thought of as a curse.