41 Bible Verses about Best Friends

Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me.

Trust ye not in a neighbor. Put ye not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lays in thy bosom.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

But it was thou, a man my equal, my companion, and my familiar friend.

Greater love has no man than this, that some man lay down his life for his friends.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

Ye are my friends, if ye do as many things as I command you.

Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so [too] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates chief friends.

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

A righteous man is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked causes them to err.

He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Wealth adds many friends, but a poor man is separated from his friend.

The friendship of LORD is with those who fear him, and he will show them his covenant.

Thou have put beloved and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.

And the scripture was fulfilled, which says, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness, and he was called a friend of God.

Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

Take ye heed each one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that came upon him, they came each one from his own place--Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite--and they made an appointment together to come t

Forsake not thine own friend, and thy father's friend. And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity. Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far off.

as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,

Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man,

I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to you.

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

He who loves pureness of heart, [for] the grace of his lips, the king will be his friend.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues [with] words, [but] they are gone.

For it was not an enemy who reproached me. Then I could have borne it. Neither was it he who hated me that magnified himself against me. Then I would have hid myself from him.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This therefore my joy is fulfilled.

Be not led astray. Evil associations corrupt good habits.

Iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

Walk with wise men, and thou shall be wise. But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

And I say to you, make friends for yourselves from the mammon of unrighteousness, so that, when ye cease, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.

We took sweet counsel together. We walked in the house of God with the throng.

A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city, and [such] contentions are like the bars of a castle.

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

And both Pilate and Herod became friends with each other on the same day, for they were formerly being at enmity toward themselves.

He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be considered a curse to him.