42 Bible Verses about Best Friends

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

All my close friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved have turned against me.

Trust not in a friend, put not confidence in a companion: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.

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

But it was you, a man my equal, my guide, and my close friend.

Greater love has 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 deceitful.

A perverse man sows strife: and a whisperer separates best friends.

You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you.

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

He that covers over a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates close friends.

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

The righteous chooses his friends carefully: but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor.

The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.

Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loves is born of God, and knows God.

Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

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: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tent;

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go:

From now on I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

He that loves pureness of heart and has grace on his lips, the king shall be his friend.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursues them with words, yet they are nothing to him.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

Be not deceived: evil companions corrupt good morals.

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

He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up.

And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it fails, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

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

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

And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.

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