14 Bible Verses about True Friends

A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Greater love hath 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 every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: 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 doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

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

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been to me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had 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.