14 Bible Verses about True Friends

A man with friends is to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find?

ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you; no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend -- from counsel of the soul.

Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better is a near neighbour than a brother afar off.

Better is open reproof than hidden love.

Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace are his lips, a king is his friend.

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

I am in distress for thee, my brother Jonathan, Very pleasant wast thou to me; Wonderful was thy love to me, Above the love of women!

and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.

And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite -- and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;