'Friends' in the Bible

If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?

Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane."

He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."

He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.

"I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'

When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.'

But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

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.

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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.

On the next day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and his near friends.

Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.

but I hope to see you soon, and we will speak face to face. Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.