37 Bible Verses about Friendship Kjv
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A man of [many] friends will come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Many will seek favor before the generous, and everyone [is] the friend of a man of gifts.
Perfume and incense will gladden a heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend [is] {personal advice}.
Do not befriend an owner of {anger}, and with a man of wrath you shall not associate;
The wounds of a friend mean well, but the kisses of an enemy are profane.
As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake [them], and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.
A righteous person will seek out his neighbor, but the way of the wicked will lead them astray.
"Let everyone be on your guard against his neighbor, and you must not trust in any brother, for everyone surely betrays, and every neighbor goes about [with] slander.
No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend. Guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your lap.
He who loves purity of heart [and has]{gracious speech}, his friend [is the] king.
Fear Yahweh, my son, and the king; with those who change, do not associate.
All the brothers of the poor, [if] they hate him, how much more will his friends keep away from him. He pursues [them with] words, [and] they are gone.
Do not say to your neighbor, "Go and return and tomorrow I will give [it]," {when it is with you}.
Now Amnon had a friend whose name [was] Jonadab the son of Shimeah, the brother of David. (Now Jonadab [was] a very crafty man.)
And you will be handed over even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put to death [some] of you.
Intimate fellowship with Yahweh [is] for those who fear him, and [he] makes known his covenant to them.
do this, then, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into {the palm of your neighbor's hand}: Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor.
You shall not promote their welfare or their prosperity all your days {forever}.
And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness," and he was called God's friend.
Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.
My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the stranger,
And Jesus said to him, "Friend, [do that] for which you have come." Then they came up [and] laid hands on Jesus and arrested him.
Many a person will proclaim his loyalty [for] himself, but a man [who is] trustworthy, who can find?
So they inflicted evil against me in return for good and hatred in return for my love.
Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes [himself] an enemy of God.
for he who is perverse [is] an abomination of Yahweh, but those who are upright [are] his confidence.
A person of perversity will spread dissent, and he who whispers separates a close friend.
Even {my close friend}, whom I trusted, [who] ate my bread, has lifted [his] heel against me.
I tell you, even if he does not give him [anything] [after he] gets up because [he] is his friend, at any rate because of his impudence he will get up [and] give him whatever he needs.
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