42 Bible Verses about Best Friends

Even {my close friend}, whom I trusted, [who] ate my bread, has lifted [his] heel against me.

All {my intimate friends} abhor me, and these [whom] I have loved have turned against me.

Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend. Guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your lap.

The friend loves at all times, but a brother is born for adversity.

But [it is] you, a man my equal, my friend and confidant.

No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends.

The wounds of a friend mean well, but the kisses of an enemy are profane.

A person of perversity will spread dissent, and he who whispers separates a close friend.

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Perfume and incense will gladden a heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend [is] {personal advice}.

You have removed my acquaintances far from me. You have made me detestable to them. [I am] confined and cannot go out.

He who forgives an affront fosters love, but he who waits on a matter will alienate a friend.

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

A righteous person will seek out his neighbor, but the way of the wicked will lead them astray.

A man of [many] friends will come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Wealth adds many friends, but the poor will be left by his friends.

Intimate fellowship with Yahweh [is] for those who fear him, and [he] makes known his covenant to them.

You have removed loved one and friend far from me, my acquaintances [far from my] darkness.

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness," and he was called God's friend.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

"Let everyone be on your guard against his neighbor, and you must not trust in any brother, for everyone surely betrays, and every neighbor goes about [with] slander.

Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his [own] place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.

As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake [them], and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.

as when I was in the days of my prime, when God's confiding [was] over my {house},

My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand afar off.

Do not befriend an owner of {anger}, and with a man of wrath you shall not associate;

No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have revealed to you.

Many a person will proclaim his loyalty [for] himself, but a man [who is] trustworthy, who can find?

He who loves purity of heart [and has]{gracious speech}, his friend [is the] king.

All the brothers of the poor, [if] they hate him, how much more will his friends keep away from him. He pursues [them with] words, [and] they are gone.

For [it is] not an enemy [that] taunts me, or I could bear [it]. [It is not] one who hates me [that] magnifies himself over me, or I could hide myself from him.

The one who 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. So this joy of mine is complete.

Do not be deceived! "Bad company corrupts good morals."

[As] iron sharpens iron, so {one man sharpens another}.

Walk with the wise and be wise, but as for the companion of fools, he will suffer harm.

For if one falls, his companion may help him up. But pity the one who falls and there is {no one} to help him up.

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it runs out they will welcome you into the eternal dwellings.

[We] who would take sweet counsel together; in the house of God we would walk with [the] throng.

A brother who is offended [is worse] than a city of strength, and quarrels [are] like the bars of a fortification.

{When} he finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan became attached to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his [own] soul.

And both Herod and Pilate became friends with one another on [that] same day, {for they had previously been enemies of one another}.

He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, a curse will be reckoned to him.