14 Bible Verses about True Friends

A person who has friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity.

No one has greater love than this -- that one lays down his life for his friends.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.

Many people profess their loyalty, but a faithful person -- who can find?

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

Ointment and incense make the heart rejoice, likewise the sweetness of one's friend from sincere counsel.

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not enter your brother's house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

The one who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious -- the king will be his friend.

A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends.

I grieve over you, my brother Jonathan! You were very dear to me. Your love was more special to me than the love of women.

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes.

When Job's three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country -- Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.