14 Bible Verses about True Friends

A man of many companions may be ruined, 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 someone lay down his life for his friends.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.

Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king's friend.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came 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 to comfort him.