Bible Verses about 'God as friend'
- A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for adversity. - Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend,
and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is near
than a brother who is far away. - He who withholds kindness from a friend
forsakes the fear of the Almighty. - A man of many companions may come to ruin,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. - You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
- Iron sharpens iron,
and one man sharpens another. - Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
- He who walks blamelessly and does what is right
and speaks truth in his heart;
who does not slander with his tongue
and does no evil to his neighbor,
nor takes up a reproach against his friend. - Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
- Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
- For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
- And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.
- Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
- Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
- I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have being. - As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God. - But as for me, I will look to the Lord;
I will wait for the God of my salvation;
my God will hear me. - For you, O God, have tested us;
you have tried us as silver is tried. - For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
- Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
- My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God? - Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
- Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm,
for love is strong as death,
jealousy is fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very flame of the Lord. - So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
- In the way of your testimonies I delight
as much as in all riches. - The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us.
- As far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us. - Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
- As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.
- Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
- For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,
and every tongue shall confess to God.” - So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
- For who is God, but the Lord?
And who is a rock, except our God? - As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
- For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
- And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
- As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
- Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.
- Seek good, and not evil,
that you may live;
and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you,
as you have said. - For who is God, but the Lord?
And who is a rock, except our God? - Whoever covers an offense seeks love,
but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. - Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! - Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
- And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.
- Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
- For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
- O God, you are my God;
earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land
where there is no water. - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
- For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
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