14 Bible Verses about True Friends
Most Relevant Verses
There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.
A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.
Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.
The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.
Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?
You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do. No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.
Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.
He whose heart is clean is dear to the Lord; for the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.
A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.
I am full of grief for you, my brother Jonathan: very dear have you been to me: your love for me was a wonder, greater than the love of women.
And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.
And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.
