Bible Verses About Friendship

If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, that is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;

thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:

but thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

To him that is ready to faint kindness should be showed from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, ThoughI entreat him with my mouth.

My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.

Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him:

But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend.

We took sweet counsel together; We walked in the house of God with the throng.

Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:

Lest thou learn his ways, And get a snare to thy soul.

Be thou not one of them that strike hands, Orof them that are sureties for debts.

If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?