10 Bible Verses about Divine Friendship

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Jesus wept.

So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table close to Jesus,

No longer do I call you servants, for the servantdoes not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"

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

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

and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"--and he was called a friend of God.