28 Bible Verses about Friends

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Luke 14:12

Then said he also to the person who had invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, invite not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy relations, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also invite thee again, and a recompence be made to thee.

Matthew 5:47

And if ye embrace your brethren only, what do ye extraordinary? do not even the publicans so?

Luke 11:8

I tell you, though even he would not rise and give him because he is his friend; yet because of his importunity, roused up, he will give him as many as he needeth.

3 John 1:14

but I hope shortly to see thee, and we shall speak mouth to mouth. Peace be to thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends by name.

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Luke 7:12

And as he drew near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was carrying out, an only son to his mother, and she a widow; and a great concourse of the city was with her.

Christ's » Attitude toward children » Friends

John 11:35-36

Jesus wept. Then said the Jews, Behold, how he loved him!

Friends » False friends » David's friends were false to david

More verses: Psalm 55:20-21

Friends » Jesus calls his disciples by this term

John 15:14-15

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever things I command you. I no more call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his master is doing: but I have called you friends because I have made known to you all things which I have heard of my Father.

Friends » False friends » Jesus' disciples ran away

Matthew 26:58

But Peter followed him at a great distance unto the palace of the high-priest, and entering in, sat down with the servants, to see the issue.

Friends » False friends » Judas iscariot

Matthew 26:48-49

Now he that betrayed him had given them a signal, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he: seize him. And immediately approaching to Jesus, he said, Hail, master; and kissed him.

Friends » False friends » Delilah was false to samson

Friends » False friends » Ahithophel was false to david

Friends » False friends » David was false to joab

Friends » False friends » The ephraimite's wife

Friends » False friends » Instances of » Pharaoh's butler was false to joseph

Friends » False friends » David was false to uriah

Friendship » Friends

Intercessory prayer » Should be offered up for » Friends

Topics on Friends

Comfort, Of Friends

John 11:19

and many of the Jews had come with the women who were about Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

Fake Friends

2 Corinthians 11:26

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;

Friends Failing

Matthew 26:50

Then spake Jesus to him, Friend, for what purpose art thou here? Then approaching they laid hands on Jesus, and seized him.

Gathering Friends

Matthew 17:22

And as they were returning into Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of men:

Good Friends

Romans 16:3-5

Salute Priscilla and Aquila my fellow-labourers in Christ Jesus:

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