Bible Verses About True Friends

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

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.

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.

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: