Bible Verses about 'Friend'
- Some friends play at friendship
but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. - A friend loves at all times,
and kinsfolk are born to share adversity. - Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent;
do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is nearby
than kindred who are far away. - Those who withhold kindness from a friend
forsake the fear of the Almighty. - Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
- One who forgives an affront fosters friendship,
but one who dwells on disputes will alienate a friend. - Iron sharpens iron,
and one person sharpens the wits of another. - A perverse person spreads strife,
and a whisperer separates close friends. - No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.
- Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right,
and speak the truth from their heart;
who do not slander with their tongue,
and do no evil to their friends,
nor take up a reproach against their neighbors. - And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
- Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.
- Do not envy the violent
and do not choose any of their ways;
for the perverse are an abomination to the Lord,
but the upright are in his confidence. - Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.
- Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
- But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.
- But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit; keep yourselves in the love of God; look forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
- My friends, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted.
- Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?
- Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
- Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God; and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him.
- Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.
- With their mouths the godless would destroy their neighbors,
but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. - For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.
- Beloved, we are God's children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is. And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
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