14 Bible Verses about True Friends
Most Relevant Verses
He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.
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.
Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you. 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.
Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; So doth the sweetness of a man's friend that cometh of hearty counsel.
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.
He that loveth pureness of heart, For the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.
A perverse man scattereth abroad strife; And a whisperer separateth chief friends.
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: Thy love to me was wonderful, Passing the love of women.
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.
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.
