10 Bible Verses about Divine Friendship

Now Jesus loved and was concerned about Martha and her sister and Lazarus [and considered them dear friends].

Jesus wept.

So the Jews were saying, “See how He loved him [as a close friend]!”

One of His disciples, whom Jesus loved (esteemed), was leaning against Jesus’ chest.

I do not call you servants any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you [My] friends, because I have revealed to you everything that I have heard from My Father.

And so 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 attendant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

“With him I speak mouth to mouth [directly],
Clearly and openly and not in riddles;
And he beholds the form of the Lord.
Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

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

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

And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and this [faith] was credited to him [by God] as righteousness and as conformity to His will,” and he was called the friend of God.