14 Bible Verses about True Friends
Most Relevant Verses
The man that has friends must show himself to be a friend, and there is a friend that 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 a man lay down his soul for his friends.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you. From now on I do not call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his lord does; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, so does the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Do not forsake thine own friend and thy father's friend, neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity, for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
He that loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
The perverse man sows strife, and the tale bearer separates princes.
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant hast thou been unto me; thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
And I say unto you, Make friends unto yourselves with the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when these fail, you may be received into eternal dwellings.
Now three friends of Job, Eliphaz, the Temanite, Bildad, the Shuhite, and Zophar, the Naamathite, when they heard of all this evil that had come upon him, each one came from his own place; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
