10 Bible Verses about Divine Friendship

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Jesus wept.

The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him.

And one of his disciples whom Jesus loved was sitting at Jesus' bosom.

I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to you.

And LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend, and he turned again into the camp. But his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart out of the tent.

With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches, and he shall behold the form of LORD. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom LORD knew face to face,

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

And the scripture was fulfilled, which says, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness, and he was called a friend of God.