42 Bible Verses about Best Friends

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

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

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

But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

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

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness. A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.

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

Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust 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 had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

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

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one who harbors anger:

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king's friend.

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

He 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. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn't have another to lift him up.

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's house with company.

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

It happened, 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.

Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.

He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.