28 Bible Verses about Friends

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Luke 14:12

And He said to him also who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brethren, nor your kindred, nor your rich neighbors; lest they also invite you in return, and a recompense be made you;

Matthew 5:47

And, if ye salute your brethren only, what more than others do ye? Do not even the gentiles the same?

Luke 11:8

I say to you, even if he will not, rising up, give to him because of his being his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he, rousing himself, will give him as many as he needs.

3 John 1:14

but I hope shortly to see you, and we will speak mouth to mouth. Peace be to you. The friends salute you. Salute the friends by name.

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Luke 7:12

And, as He came near to the gate of the city, behold, also there was being carried out one dead, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large crowd of the city was with her.

Christ's » Attitude toward children » Friends

John 11:35-36

Jesus wept. The Jews, therefore, said, "Behold, how He was loving him!

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

Ye are My friends, if ye do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves; because the slave knows not what his lord is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things which I heard from My Father I made known to you.

Friends » False friends » Jesus' disciples ran away

Matthew 26:58

And Peter was following Him afar off to the court of the high priest; and, entering within, he was sitting with the attendants to see the end.

Friends » False friends » Judas iscariot

Matthew 26:48-49

And he who was betraying Him gave them a sign, saying, "Whomsoever I kiss, He it is; seize Him." And immediately coming to Jesus, he said, "Hail, Rabbi!" 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

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, to comfort them concerning their brother.

Fake Friends

2 Corinthians 11:26

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, 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

But Jesus said to him, "Comrade, do that for which you are present!" Then, coming near, they laid hands on Jesus, and took Him.

Gathering Friends

Matthew 17:22

And, while they were assembled together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be delivered 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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