61 Bible Verses about Friends

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Jeremiah 9:4

Watch ye each from his neighbor, and to any brother ye shall not trust, for every brother deceiving, will deceive, and every neighbor will go tale-bearing.

Proverbs 25:17

Make rare thy foot from thy neighbor's house, lest he shall be satiated with thee, and hate thee.

Luke 14:12

And he also said to him having called him, When thou makest a breakfast or supper, call not thy friends, nor thy rich neighbors, nor thy brethren; lest they call thee in return, and a giving back be to thee.

Zechariah 13:6

And saying to him, What these wounds between thy hands? And he said, Which I was struck in the house of those loving me.

Matthew 5:47

And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye above ordinary? and do not the tax collectors the same?

Luke 11:8

I say to you, If also having risen he will not give him because of being his friend, yet for his effrontery, having risen, he will give him as many as he needs.

Psalm 55:12

For not the enemy will reproach me, and I will bear: not he hating me magnified against me; and I will hide from him.

Job 42:7

And it will be after Jehovah spake these words to Job, and Jehovah will say to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger was kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye spake not the right before me as my servant Job.

Jeremiah 9:5

And they will mock, a man upon his neighbor, and they will not speak the truth: they taught their tongue to speak falsehood, they wearied themselves to sin.

3 John 1:14

{ And I hope presently to see thee, and we will speak mouth to mouth. Peace to thee. The friends greet thee. Greet the friends by name.}

Job 19:19

All the men of my intimacy will abhor me, and those I loved were turned against me.

Daniel 2:17

Then Daniel departed to his house, and made known the word to Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah his companions:

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Genesis 50:7

And Joseph will go up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh will go up with him, the old men of his house, and all the old men of the land of Egypt

Genesis 50:9

And also will go up with him chariot, also horseman; and there will be a very great camp.

2 Samuel 3:31

And David will say to Joab and to all the people which were with him, Rend your garments and gird you with sack-cloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David went after the litter.

Luke 7:12

And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, he dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow; and a sufficient crowd of the city was with her.

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John 11:35-36

Jesus wept. Then said the Jews, See how he loved him I

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Psalm 55:12-14

For not the enemy will reproach me, and I will bear: not he hating me magnified against me; and I will hide from him. And thou a man according to my estimation, my friend and my acquaintance. Who together made sweet the intercourse, we will go into the house of God with the multitude.

Psalm 88:8

Thou didst remove far from me mine acquaintance; thou didst set me an abomination to them: I was shut up, and I shall not go forth.

Psalm 35:11-16

Witnesses of wrong will rise up; they will ask me what I knew not. They will requite me evil instead of good, bereaving to my soul And I, in their being sick, my clothing sackcloth: I humbled my soul in fasting, and my prayer shall be turned back upon my bosom. read more.
As a friend, as a brother to me: I went about as mourning a mother: being darkened, I bowed down. And in my halting they rejoiced, and they were gathered together: they smiting were gathered together against me, and I knew not; they rent asunder and ceased not: With profane mocking parasites, gnashing their teeth against me.

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John 15:14-15

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you. I no more call you servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: and I have called you friends; for all which I heard of my Father I made known to you.

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Matthew 26:58

And Peter followed him from far, even to the court-yard of the chief priest, and having entered within, he sat with the attendants, to see the end.

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Matthew 26:48-49

And he delivering him up, gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, the same is he: hold him firmly. And quickly having come to Jesus, he said, Hail, Rabbi! and kissed him.

Friends » False friends » Delilah was false to samson

Judges 16:1-20

And Samson will go to Gaza, and he will see there a woman, a harlot, and he will go in to her. To the Gazites, saying, Samson came here. And they will encompass, and will lie in wait for him all the night in the gate of the city, and they will be silent all the night, saying, During the light of the morning and we killed him. And Samson will lie till half the night, and he will rise in half the night, and he will seize the doors of the gate of the city and with the two door-posts, and will remove them with the bar, and will set upon his shoulders, and he will bring them up to the head of the mountain which is upon the face of Hebron. read more.
And it will be after this, and he will love a woman in the valley of Shorek, and her name Delilah. And the princes of Philisteim will come up and will say to her, Persuade him, and see in what is his great strength, and in what we shall prevail against him, and bind him to humble him: and we give to thee each a thousand and a hundred of silver. And Delilah will say to Samson, Announce now to me in what is thy great strength, and in what thou shalt be bound to humble thee. And Samson will say to her, If they shall bind me with seven moist cords that were not dried, and I was weak and shall be as another man. And the princess of Philisteim will bring up to her seven moist cords which were not dried, and she will bind him with them. And lying in wait dwelling by her in the chamber. And she will say to him, Philisteim upon thee, Samson. And he will tear away the cords as a thread of tow will be torn away in its smelling the fire. And his strength was not known. And Delilah will say to Samson, Behold, thou deceivest me, and thou wilt speak to me lies: this time announce to me now in what thou shalt be bound. And he will say to her, If binding, they shall bind me with new cords which work was not done with them, and I was weak and was as another man. And Delilah will take new cords and will bind him with them, and she will say to him, Philisteim upon thee, Samson, (and the lier in wait dwelling in the chamber.) And he will tear them away from off his arms as a thread. And Delilah will say to Samson, Till now thou deceivedst me, and thou wilt speak to me lies: announce to me in what thou shalt be bound. And he will say to her, If thou shalt weave the seven braids of my head with the warp. And she will fasten with a peg, and she will say to him, Philisteim upon thee, Samson. And he will awake from his sleep, and he will tear away the peg of the braid and the warp. And she will say to him, Wilt thou say, I loved thee, and thy heart not with me? This three times thou didst deceive me, and didst not announce to me in what is thy great strength. And it will be in her pressing upon him with her words all the days, and she will urge him, and his soul will be shortened to death; And he will announce to her all his heart, and he will say to her, A razor came not up upon my head, for I am devoted to God from my mother's womb: if I were shaved, and my strength removed from me, and I was weak, and was as all men. And Delilah will see that he announced to her all his heart, and she will send and call to the princes of Philisteim, saying, Come up to me this time; for he announced to her all his heart And the princes of Philisteim will come up to her, and will bring up the silver in their hand. And she will cause him to sleep upon her knees; and she will call to a man, and she will shave the seven braids of his head; and she will begin to humble him, and his strength will remove from him. And she will say, Philisteim upon thee, Samson. And he will awake from his sleep, and say, I will go forth as once upon once, and shake myself. And he knew not that Jehovah removed from him.

Friends » False friends » Ahithophel was false to david

2 Samuel 15:12

And Absalom will send for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, from Giloh, in his sacrificing sacrifices. And the conspiracy will be strong; and the people went and a multitude with Absalom.

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1 Kings 2:5-6

And also thou knewest what Joab on of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two chiefs of the armies of Israel, to Abner son of Ner, and to Amasa son of Jether; and he will kill them and put the bloods of war in peace, and give the bloods of war upon his girdle which was upon his loins, and in his shoe upon his feet And do according to thy wisdom, and thou wilt not bring down his gray hairs in peace to hades

Friends » False friends » The ephraimite's wife

Judges 19:1-2

And it will be in those days, and no king in Israel; and it will be a man, a Levite, sojourning in the sides of mount Ephraim, and he will take to him a wife, a concubine, from the House of Bread, of Judah. And his concubine will commit fornication against him, and she will go from him to the house of her father, to the House of Bread, of Judah, and she will be there the days of four months.

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

Genesis 40:23

And the chief of the cup-bearers did not remember Joseph, and he will forget him.

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Job 42:8

And now take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and bring up a burnt-offering for yourselves; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for his face I will accept, so as not to do with you for folly, for ye spake not to me the right as my servant Job.

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Comfort, Of Friends

Job 2:11

And the three friends of Job will hear all this evil coming upon him, and they will come, a man from his place:: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: and they will appoint to come together to deplore for him, and to comfort him.

Friends Surrounding

2 Kings 11:8

And surround upon the king round about, a man and his weapon in, his hand: and he coming into the ranks shall be slain. And be ye with, the king in his going forth and in his coming

Gathering Friends

Genesis 29:22

And Laban will gather together all the men of the place, and will make a drinking.

Good Friends

1 Samuel 18:1-3

And it will be as he finished to speak to Saul, and the soul of Jonathan was bound with the soul of David, and Jonathan will love him as his soul.

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