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!"

One of his disciples--the one whom Jesus loved--was reclining {close beside} Jesus.

No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have revealed to you.

And Yahweh would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his neighbor. And he would return to the camp, and his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the middle of the tent.

I will speak to him mouth to mouth, [in] clearness, not in riddles; and he will look at the form of Yahweh. Why were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?"

And not again has a prophet arisen in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,

O, our God, did you yourself not 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 that says, "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness," and he was called God's friend.