Bible Verses about “true friends”
The Bible contains 28 verses about true friends across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
“Jesus saith unto him, ‹I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.›”
“¶ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
“‹Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.›”
“‹This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.›”
“¶ Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”
“‹Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and› [that] ‹your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.›”
“¶ A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
“¶ A man [that hath] friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother.”
“A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.”
“¶ Where no counsel [is], the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors [there is] safety.”
“‹Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.›”
“¶ Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.”
“‹Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.›”
“‹These things I command you, that ye love one another.›”
“Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.”
“¶ Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.”
“¶ Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?”
“¶ As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.”
“And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens.”
“¶ Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.”
“For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?”
“¶ [As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise.”
“¶ Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.”
“The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.”
“The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.”
“¶ Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.”
“¶ Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.”