28 Bible Verses about Friends

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Luke 14:12

And He spoke to the one having also invited Him, When you may make a dinner or a supper, do not call your rich friends, nor your brothers, nor your kindred, nor your neighbors; lest they may also invite thee in turn, and there may be a recompense unto thee.

Matthew 5:47

If you salute your brethren only, what do ye more abundantly? do not the heathens also the same thing?

Luke 11:8

I say unto you, If indeed having risen he will not give unto him, because he is his friend, yet on account of his shamelessness, rising he will give him as much as he needs.

3 John 1:14

but I hope to see you immediately, and mouth to mouth we will speak. (15) Peace be unto you. The friends salute you; salute the friends by name.

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Luke 7:12

And when He drew nigh unto the gate of the city, behold, a dead man, an only born son to his mother, and she a widow, was indeed being carried out: and a great multitude of the city was along with her.

Christ's » Attitude toward children » Friends

John 11:35-36

Jesus wept. Then the Jews were saying, Behold, how He loved him as a friend!

Friends » False friends » David's friends were false to david

More verses: Psalm 55:20-21

Friends » Jesus calls his disciples by this term

John 15:14-15

You are my friends, if you may do those things which I command you. No longer do I call you servants; because the servant knows not what his lord is doing: but I have called you friends; because all things which I heard with my Father, I made known unto you.

Friends » False friends » Jesus' disciples ran away

Matthew 26:58

And Peter followed Him a long way off, into the court of the high priest, and having come in, was sitting with the officers, to see the end.

Friends » False friends » Judas iscariot

Matthew 26:48-49

And the one having betrayed Him gave them a sign, saying, The one whom I shall kiss, is He: hold Him fast. And immediately coming forward to Jesus, he said, Hail, Master; and kissed Him copiously.

Friends » False friends » Delilah was false to samson

Friends » False friends » Ahithophel was false to david

Friends » False friends » David was false to joab

Friends » False friends » The ephraimite's wife

Friends » False friends » Instances of » Pharaoh's butler was false to joseph

Friends » False friends » David was false to uriah

Friendship » Friends

Intercessory prayer » Should be offered up for » Friends

Topics on Friends

Comfort, Of Friends

John 11:19

And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother.

Fake Friends

2 Corinthians 11:26

Often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

Friends Failing

Matthew 26:50

And Jesus said to him, Comrade, unto what do you come? Then having come forward they laid hands on Him, and bound Him.

Gathering Friends

Matthew 17:22

And they sojourning in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.

Good Friends

Romans 16:3-5

Salute Prisca and Aquila my fellow-laborers in Christ Jesus;

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