61 Bible Verses about Friends
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Trust not in a friend, put not confidence in a companion: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.
Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
From now on I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it fails, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
A perverse man sows strife: and a whisperer separates best friends.
Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loves is born of God, and knows God.
The righteous chooses his friends carefully: but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house; lest he be weary of you, and so hate you.
He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Be not deceived: evil companions corrupt good morals.
Then said he also to him that bade him, When you give a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brethren, neither your kinsmen, nor your rich neighbors; lest they also bid you again, and a recompense be made you.
And you shall be betrayed both by parents, and brothers, and kinsfolk, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds between your hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
Many will entreat the favor of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that gives gifts.
And if you greet your brethren only, what do you more than others? do not even the tax collectors so?
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and contentions are like the bars of a castle.
He that covers over a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates close friends.
I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give to him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needs.
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends: for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
And they will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
But I trust I shall shortly see you, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to you. Our friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.
All my close friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved have turned against me.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
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And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the coffin.
Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and many people of the city were with her.
Christ's » Attitude toward children » Friends
From now on I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Friends » False friends » David's friends were false to david
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: But it was you, a man my equal, my guide, and my close friend. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. They rewarded me evil for good to the sorrow of my soul. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom. read more.
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother. But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: With hypocritical mockers at feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Friends » Jesus calls his disciples by this term
You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you. From now on I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Friends » False friends » Jesus' disciples ran away
But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
Friends » False friends » Judas iscariot
Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast. And immediately he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, Teacher; and kissed him.
Friends » False friends » Delilah was false to samson
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her. And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson has come here. And they surrounded the place, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him. And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of a hill that is before Hebron. read more.
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will all give you eleven hundred pieces of silver. And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray you, where your great strength lies, and with what you might be bound to afflict you. And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon you, Samson. And he broke the cords, as a thread of yarn is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known. And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray you, how you might be bound. And he said unto her, If they bind me securely with new ropes that never were used, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him with them, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon you, Samson. And there were men lying in wait abiding in the chamber. And he broke them from off his arms like a thread. And Delilah said unto Samson, Until now you have mocked me, and told me lies: tell me how you might be bound. And he said unto her, If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web. And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon you, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web. And she said unto him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? you have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies. And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There has not come a razor upon my head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man. And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he has showed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand. And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. And she said, The Philistines be upon you, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he knew not that the LORD was departed from him.
Friends » False friends » Ahithophel was false to david
And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
Friends » False friends » David was false to joab
Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his belt that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet. Do therefore according to your wisdom, and let not his gray head go down to the grave in peace.
Friends » False friends » The ephraimite's wife
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah. And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.
Friends » False friends » Instances of » Pharaoh's butler was false to joseph
Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him.
Friends » False friends » David was false to uriah
Friendship » Friends
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Intercessory prayer » Should be offered up for » Friends
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
Topics on Friends
Abandoning Friends
Proverbs 27:10Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
Bad Friends
1 Corinthians 15:33Be not deceived: evil companions corrupt good morals.
Best Friends
Psalm 41:9Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
Choosing Friends
Proverbs 18:24A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
Christians Are Called Friends
John 15:15From now on I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Comfort, Of Friends
Job 2:11Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Family And Friends
Luke 21:16And you shall be betrayed both by parents, and brothers, and kinsfolk, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
Friends Failing
Proverbs 19:4Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor.
Friends Surrounding
2 Kings 11:8And you shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that comes within the ranks, let him be slain: and be you with the king as he goes out and as he comes in.
Gathering Friends
Genesis 29:22And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
Good Friends
1 Samuel 18:1-3And it came to pass, when he had finished speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Losing Friends
Proverbs 19:4Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor.
True Friends
Proverbs 18:24A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
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