42 Bible Verses about Best Friends
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Even my close friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has lifted up his heel against me.
“All my associates abhor me,
And those I love have turned against me.
Do not trust in a neighbor;
Do not have confidence in a friend.
From her who lies in your bosom
Guard your lips.
A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.
Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.
A perverse man spreads strife,
And a slanderer separates intimate friends.
You have removed my acquaintances far from me;
You have made me an object of loathing to them;
I am shut up and cannot go out.
He who conceals a transgression seeks love,
But he who repeats a matter separates intimate friends.
The righteous is a guide to his neighbor,
But the way of the wicked leads them astray.
A man of too many friends comes to ruin,
But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
The secret of the Lord is for those who fear Him,
And He will make them know His covenant.
and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
“Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor,
And do not trust any brother;
Because every brother deals craftily,
And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort him.
Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
And do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.
As I was in the prime of my days,
When the friendship of God was over my tent;
No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
All the brothers of a poor man hate him;
How much more do his friends abandon him!
He pursues them with words, but they are gone.
For it is not an enemy who reproaches me,
Then I could bear it;
Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me,
Then I could hide myself from him.
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine has been made full.
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.
And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city,
And contentions are like the bars of a citadel.
Now it came about when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
Now Herod and Pilate became friends with one another that very day; for before they had been enemies with each other.
He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be reckoned a curse to him.
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