Bible Verses About Friendship: General references

If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,

Of all the nations round about, that are near or afar off, from one end of the earth to the other,

Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to pity and conceal him,

But thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord.

My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys.

He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.

My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.

They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants have counted me as a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.

I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.

My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.

Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spoke against me.

They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is turned against me.

The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.

Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.

Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?

There the workers of iniquity are fallen, they are cast out, and could not stand.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I will pay, praises to thee:

Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living.

We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man:

Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul.

Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:

For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there that he should take the covering from thy bed?