14 Bible Verses about True Friends

A man that has friends must show himself friendly: 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 life for his friends.

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

Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you. From now on I call you not servants; for the servant knows not 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.

Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

He that loves pureness of heart and has grace on his lips, the king shall be his friend.

A perverse man sows strife: and a whisperer separates best friends.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant have you been unto me: your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it fails, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.