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!

Now there was at table one of his disciples in the bosom of Jesus, whom Jesus loved.

I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.

And Jehovah spoke with Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. And he returned to the camp; but his attendant, Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from within the tent.

Mouth to mouth do I speak to him openly, and not in riddles; and the form of Jehovah doth he behold. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

And there arose no prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom Jehovah had known face to face;

Hast not thou, our God, dispossessed the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and given it for ever to the seed of Abraham, thy friend?

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