14 Bible Verses about True Friends

He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

Ye are my friends, if ye do as many things as I command you. I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to you.

Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so [too] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

Forsake not thine own friend, and thy father's friend. And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity. Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far off.

Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.

He who loves pureness of heart, [for] the grace of his lips, the king will be his friend.

A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan. Very pleasant thou have been to me. Thy love to me was wonderful, exceeding the love of women.

And I say to you, make friends for yourselves from the mammon of unrighteousness, so that, when ye cease, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that came upon him, they came each one from his own place--Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite--and they made an appointment together to come t