42 Bible Verses about Best Friends
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Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.
The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.
and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"--and he was called a friend of God.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
Do not forsake your friend and 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 who is far away.
My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
No longer do I call you servants, for the servantdoes not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?
He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
All a poor man's brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.
For it is not an enemy who taunts me-- then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me-- then I could hide from him.
The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.
We used to take sweet counsel together; within God's house we walked in the throng.
A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been at enmity with each other.
Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
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