14 Bible Verses about True Friends

A man of [many] friends will come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

The friend loves at all times, but a brother is born for adversity.

No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends.

The wounds of a friend mean well, but the kisses of an enemy are profane.

Many a person will proclaim his loyalty [for] himself, but a man [who is] trustworthy, who can find?

You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have revealed to you.

Perfume and incense will gladden a heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend [is] {personal advice}.

As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake [them], and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.

Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden.

He who loves purity of heart [and has]{gracious speech}, his friend [is the] king.

A person of perversity will spread dissent, and he who whispers separates a close friend.

{I am distressed} over you, my brother Jonathan. you [were] very dear to me; your love [was] more wonderful to me than the love of women.

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it runs out they will welcome you into the eternal dwellings.

Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his [own] place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.