42 Bible Verses about Best Friends

Even mine ally, in whom I trusted, One eating my bread, made great the heel against me,

Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.

Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth.

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

But thou, a man -- as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance.

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend -- from counsel of the soul.

Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up -- I go not forth.

Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,

The righteous searcheth his companion, And the way of the wicked causeth them to err.

A man with friends is to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.

The secret of Jehovah is for those fearing Him, And His covenant -- to cause them to know.

Thou hast put far from me lover and friend, Mine acquaintance is the place of darkness!

and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, 'And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;' and, 'Friend of God' he was called.

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk,

And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite -- and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;

Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better is a near neighbour than a brother afar off.

As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.

My lovers and my friends over-against my plague stand. And my neighbours afar off have stood.

Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find?

Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace are his lips, a king is his friend.

All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words -- they are not!

For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear it, He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.

he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but woe to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!

and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.

When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.

A brother transgressed against is as a strong city, And contentions as the bar of a palace.

And it cometh to pass, when he finisheth to speak unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan hath been bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loveth him as his own soul.

and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves.

Whoso is saluting his friend with a loud voice, In the morning rising early, A light thing it is reckoned to him.