14 Bible Verses about True Friends

A man of many companions may come to ruin, 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 one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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

Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?

You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servantdoes not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.