42 Bible Verses about Best Friends

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

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

Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: 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 guide, and mine acquaintance.

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 deceitful.

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

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

Thou hast put away 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 repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

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

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

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

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

The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.

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

And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed 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 born of God, and knoweth God.

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk 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: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

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.

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

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

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

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.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall 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, yet they are wanting to him.

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, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

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

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

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.

And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their 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 the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: 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.