28 Bible Verses about Friends

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Luke 14:12

He also said to his host, "When you give a dinner or supper, do not ask your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbours, in case they invite you back again and you get repaid.

Matthew 5:47

and if you only salute your friends, what is special about that? do not the very pagans do as much?

Luke 11:8

I tell you, though he will not get up and give you anything because you are a friend of his, he will at least rise and give you whatever you want, because you persist.

3 John 1:14

I am hoping to see you soon, and we will have a talk. [15] Peace to you! The friends salute you: salute the friends one by one.

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Luke 7:12

Just as he was near the gate of the town, there was a dead man being carried out; he was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the town were with her.

Christ's » Attitude toward children » Friends

John 13:23

As one of his disciples was reclining on his breast ??he was the favourite of Jesus ??24 Peter nodded to him, saying, "Tell us who he means."

John 11:35-36

Jesus burst into tears. Whereupon the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" ??37 though some of them asked, "Could he not have prevented him from dying, when he could open a blind man's eyes?"

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 do what I command you; & I call you servants no longer, because a servant does not know what his master is doing: I call you friends, because I have imparted to you all that I have learned from my Father.

Friends » False friends » Jesus' disciples ran away

Matthew 26:58

Peter followed him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and when he got inside he sat down beside the attendants to see the end.

Friends » False friends » Judas iscariot

Matthew 26:48-49

Now his betrayer had given them a signal; he said, " Whoever I kiss, that is the man." So he went up at once to Jesus; "Hail, rabbi!" he said, and kissed him.

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

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Intercessory prayer » Should be offered up for » Friends

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Fake Friends

2 Corinthians 11:26

I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers ??27 through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it.

Friends Failing

Matthew 26:50

Jesus said, "My man, do your errand." Then they laid hands on Jesus and seized him.

Gathering Friends

Matthew 17:22

When his adherents mustered in Galilee Jesus told them, "The Son of man is to be betrayed into the hands of men;

Good Friends

Romans 16:3-5

Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus,

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