Contextual topic guide
Friendship
Bible verses about friendship, being a good friend, and godly friendships.
Bible verses
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loves at all times
A man friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend sticketh closer than a brother.
A friend who sticks closer than a brother
Two better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Two are better than one
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Greater love has no one than this
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
Sweet friendship refreshes the soul
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Job's friends came to comfort him
Faithful the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy deceitful.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend
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