14 Bible Verses about True Friends
Most Relevant Verses
A man of many friends will come to ruin but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
The friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you. I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; and the sweetness of one's friend is the fruit of hearty counsel.
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
A false man soweth contention; and a talebearer separateth very friends.
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant wast thou unto me; Thy love to me was wonderful, passing women's love.
And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles.
And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that was come upon him. And they came each one from his place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to condole with him and to comfort him.