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.
“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”
“Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.”
“Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
“"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”
“Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.”
“You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”
“A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.”
“A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”
“A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.”
“Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.”
“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.”
“Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:”
“You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.”
“"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.”
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.”
“Better is open rebuke than hidden love.”
“Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?”
“As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.”
“There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, for your family's food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.”
“Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied.”
“for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.”
“The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.”
“Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.”
“The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field.”
“The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.”
“It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.”
“Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.”