14 Bible Verses about True Friends
Most Relevant Verses
A man with many friends may be harmed,
but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
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A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a difficult time.
No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.
The wounds of a friend are trustworthy,
but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.
You are My friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.
Oil and incense bring joy to the heart,
and the sweetness of a friend is better than self-counsel.
Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
A contrary man spreads conflict,
and a gossip separates close friends.
I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother.
You were such a friend to me.
Your love for me was more wonderful
than the love of women.
And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of the unrighteous money so that when it fails, they may welcome you into eternal dwellings.
Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.
