10 Bible Verses about Divine Friendship

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Jesus wept.

So the Jews were saying, “See how He loved him!”

There was reclining on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.

No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

With him I speak mouth to mouth,
Even openly, and not in dark sayings,
And he beholds the form of the Lord.
Why then were you not afraid
To speak against My servant, against Moses?”

Since that time no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,

Did You not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.