14 Bible Verses about True Friends

A man who has friends may be broken up, but there is a Lover who sticks closer than a brother.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for the time of trouble.

No one has greater love 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 each his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so does the sweetness of one's friend by advice from the heart.

Your own friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake them; nor go to your brother's house in the day of your trouble; better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

He who loves pureness of heart, grace is on his lips; the king shall be his friend.

A perverse man causes fighting, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. Very pleasant you have been to me. Your love to me was wonderful, more than the love of women.

And I say to you, Make friends by the mammon of unrighteousness for yourselves, so that when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.

And Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, and they each one came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had met together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.