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100 Bible Verses about Jesus Friend

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 15,779 helpful votes

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

John 15:13 ESV / 15,667 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 14,849 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 12,471 helpful votes

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

John 15:15 ESV / 12,293 helpful votes

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

James 2:23 ESV / 10,430 helpful votes

And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.

Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 9,191 helpful votes

One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 9,153 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 7,110 helpful votes

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 6,912 helpful votes

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

James 4:4 ESV / 6,881 helpful votes

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 6,787 helpful votes

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

John 15:14 ESV / 6,730 helpful votes

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

James 4:8 ESV / 5,685 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 5,676 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 5,600 helpful votes

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 5,563 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

John 15:12-15 ESV / 4,742 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 4,704 helpful votes

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

Proverbs 24:5 ESV / 4,644 helpful votes

A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV / 4,636 helpful votes

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 4,552 helpful votes

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 4,446 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 4,445 helpful votes

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 4,445 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Isaiah 41:8 ESV / 3,532 helpful votes

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

1 Samuel 18:1-3 ESV / 3,515 helpful votes

As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father's house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.

Luke 6:31 ESV / 3,514 helpful votes

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Job 2:11 ESV / 3,513 helpful votes

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 3,511 helpful votes

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 3,509 helpful votes

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

Proverbs 27:5-6 ESV / 3,508 helpful votes

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 3,494 helpful votes

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Psalm 41:9 ESV / 3,447 helpful votes

Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

2 Kings 2:2 ESV / 3,422 helpful votes

And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

Proverbs 20:6 ESV / 3,412 helpful votes

Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 3,411 helpful votes

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Luke 7:34 ESV / 3,407 helpful votes

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Proverbs 22:11 ESV / 3,407 helpful votes

He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

Exodus 33:11 ESV / 3,406 helpful votes

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 3,404 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

2 Peter 1:1 ESV / 3,400 helpful votes

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

James 1:1 ESV / 3,400 helpful votes

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 3,400 helpful votes

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

John 16:12 ESV / 3,400 helpful votes

“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

John 15:20 ESV / 3,400 helpful votes

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

Matthew 18:20 ESV / 3,390 helpful votes

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Job 6:14 ESV / 3,386 helpful votes

“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 3,377 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

John 14:27 ESV / 3,334 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 3,315 helpful votes

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...

Luke 5:32 ESV / 3,314 helpful votes

I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

John 15:16 ESV / 3,311 helpful votes

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV / 3,309 helpful votes

And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Matthew 11:19 ESV / 3,303 helpful votes

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”

2 Chronicles 20:7 ESV / 2,396 helpful votes

Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?

Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 2,384 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 2,380 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 2,373 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2,371 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

John 14:6 ESV / 2,277 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2,276 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Luke 15:1-2 ESV / 2,275 helpful votes

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2,273 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 11:11 ESV / 2,272 helpful votes

After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.”

John 13:35 ESV / 2,271 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 2,271 helpful votes

Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 2,270 helpful votes

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 2,270 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2,270 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2,270 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Matthew 26:50 ESV / 2,270 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you came to do.” Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 2,270 helpful votes

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Proverbs 3:32 ESV / 2,270 helpful votes

For the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 2,268 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 2,264 helpful votes

Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

John 15:12-17 ESV / 2,263 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ...

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2,262 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 2,260 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 2,260 helpful votes

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Romans 1:1 ESV / 2,260 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2,260 helpful votes

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 2,260 helpful votes

But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

Isaiah 53:4 ESV / 2,260 helpful votes

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

John 3:16 ESV / 2,248 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2,246 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 2,236 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Proverbs 27:10 ESV / 2,222 helpful votes

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

Psalm 133:1 ESV / 2,212 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 2,210 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Romans 5:10 ESV / 2,085 helpful votes

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Philippians 2:25 ESV / 2,084 helpful votes

I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2,078 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 2:4 ESV / 2,077 helpful votes

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

John 6:44 ESV / 2,074 helpful votes

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 2,070 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Philippians 2:5 ESV / 2,070 helpful votes

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

Philippians 2:4 ESV / 2,070 helpful votes

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 2,070 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Philippians 2:20 ESV / 1,948 helpful votes

For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.

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