14 Bible Verses about True Friends
Most Relevant Verses
A man of too many friends comes to ruin,
But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.
Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.
You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
And do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.
A perverse man spreads strife,
And a slanderer separates intimate friends.
“I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;
You have been very pleasant to me.
Your love to me was more wonderful
Than the love of women.
And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort him.