34 Bible Verses about Good Friends

Salute Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow laborers in the cause of Jesus Christ, who risked their own lives to save mine; who are thanked not only by me, but by all the churches among the Gentiles. Salute likewise the church that meets in their home. Salute Epaenetus, my dearly beloved, the first man in Roman Asia to believe in Christ.

Now when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, although a door was opened to me in the Lord, I could get no peace of mind because I failed to find Titus, my brother. So I bade them good-bye and started off for Macedonia.

Epaphroditus, my brother and coworker and fellow soldier, who is your messenger and minister to my needs, I have thought it necessary to send to you;

Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow slave in the Lord, will make known to you all that concerns me.

Luke, the beloved physician, salutes you, and so does Demas.

To Timothy, my beloved child; Grace mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I give thanks to God whom I worship with a pure conscience as my fathers did, when I remember you unceasingly in my prayers. Night and day when I recall your tears I am longing to see you, that my happiness may be complete.

While he was speaking his message, they came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four men. When they could not get him near to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof under which he stood, and after making an opening, they let down the cot on which the paralytic was lying.

And there were present several women who were looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from a Galilee, ministering to him. among them being Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

At the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came down to see the sepulcher, when lo!

For I am longing so to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established; that is, that I with you may be encouraged by you, each of us by the other's faith, yours and mine.

"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Why, a man will hardly give his life for another, even for a righteous man, though perchance for a good man one might even take it upon himself to die.

"And after he has found it, he lays it on his shoulder, rejoicing.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ.

So let us no longer pass judgment on one another; rather let this be your judgment, that no one put a stumbling-block in his brother's way, nor any cause of falling.

and let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and good works;

Stand fast then, brothers, dearly loved and longed for, my joy and my crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved!

and they stedfastly continued in the teaching of the apostles, and in the fellowship, in the breaking of the bread, and in the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were wrought by the apostles.

And all the believers were together, and had all things in common. They would sell their lands and other property, and distribute the proceeds among all, just as any one from time had need.

Now the multitude of the believers was of one heart and one soul, nor did any one of them say that any of his possessions was his own; but they had all things common. And the apostles continued with great power to give their witness concerning the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. Nor was there any one of them in want, for all who owned houses or lands would sell them and bring the price of the things that were sold, and lay it at the apostles' feet;read more.
and distribution would be made to each according to his need.

So the disciples decided to send relief, every man according to his means, to the brothers in Judea.

(for he who has equipped Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised, equipped me also for the apostleship to the Gentiles), and when they recognized the grace which had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, then thought to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and to me the right hand of fellowship. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the Jews.

Upon every remembrance of you I am ever thanking my God for you all; in every petition of mine in your behalf I am offering my prayer with joy for your fellowship in forwarding the gospel, from the first day you heard it until now.

To this end I am making my constant prayer for you, beseeching God to make you worthy of your calling, and to fulfil mightily every desire of goodness and effort of faith; so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in him, according to the grace of our God and of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So confess your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. For the fervent prayer of a righteous man is mighty in its working.

If it be possible, so far as it lies with you, be at peace with all men.

Euodia I entreat, and I entreat Syntyche, to be of the same mind of the Lord; yes, and I beg you also, my true yokefellow, to help them; for these women shared my toil in the furtherance of the gospel, together with Clement, and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life.

but rejoices when the truth rejoices.

Above everything have fervent love to one another; for love veils a multitude of sins.

Even if any one should be overtaken in a fault, brothers, you that are spiritual ought, in a gentle spirit, to restore such a one, each one of you looking to himself, lest you too be tempted. Ever be bearing one another's burdens, and so be fulfilling the law of Christ.

My brothers, if any one of you strays from the truth, and some one brings him back, let him know that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his ways, saves his soul from death, and hides a multitude of sins.

and the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Lo, a glutton and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is justified by her deeds."

"The son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!'