Bible Verses About Friendship

"If your brother the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or your wife whom you love, or your friend who means as much to you as yourself, secretly tries to entice you to go and serve other gods, which you haven't known, neither you nor your ancestors -

gods of the peoples surrounding you, whether near or far away from you, anywhere in the world -

you are not to consent, and you are not to listen to him; and you must not pity him or spare him; and you may not conceal him.

Rather, you must kill him! Your own hand must be the first one on him in putting him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

"A friend should be kind to an unhappy man, even to one who abandons Shaddai.

But my brothers are as deceptive as vadis, as vadi streams that soon run dry;

"He has made my brothers keep their distance, those who know me are wholly estranged from me,

my kinsfolk have failed me, and my close friends have forgotten me.

Those living in my house consider me a stranger; my slave-girls too - in their view I'm a foreigner.

I call my servant, and he doesn't answer, even if I beg him for a favor!

"My wife can't stand my breath, I am loathsome to my own family.

Even young children despise me -if I stand up, they start jeering at me.

All my intimate friends abhor me, and those I loved have turned against me.

My bones stick to my skin and flesh; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

"Pity me, friends of mine, pity me! For the hand of God has struck me!

Must you pursue me as God does, never satisfied with my flesh?

But I, when they were ill, wore sackcloth; I put myself out and fasted; I can pray that what I prayed for them might also happen to me.

I behaved as I would for my friend or my brother; I bent down in sorrow as if mourning my mother.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me; if it had been, I could have borne it. It was not my adversary who treated me with scorn; if it had been, I could have hidden myself.

But it was you, a man of my own kind, my companion, whom I knew well.

We used to share our hearts with each other; in the house of God we walked with the crowd.

Don't associate with an angry man; make no hot-tempered man your companion.

If you do, you may learn his ways and find yourself caught in a trap.

Don't be one of those who give pledges, guaranteeing loans made to others;

for if you don't have the wherewithal to pay, they will take your bed away from underneath you.