Verses about friendship

At all times the friend loves, and a brother is born for distress.

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

Faithful are the wounds of one who loves, and abundant the kisses of one who hates.

Oil and incense make glad the heart, and the sweetness of one’s friend is more than the counsel of the soul. Your friend and your father’s friend do not abandon; and do not enter your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

Iron with iron is sharpened, and a man sharpens the face of his friend.

Whoever covers a transgression seeks love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.

Two are better than one, because they have good wages for their toil. For if they fall, the one will lift up his companion; but woe to him, the one who falls and there is no second to lift him up!

Whoever walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of the senseless will suffer harm.

Do not be deceived: Bad company corrupts good morals.

Do not make friends with a man of anger, and with a man of wrath do not go, lest you learn his ways and take a snare for your soul.

Happy is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or stand in the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of scoffers;

A man of perversities spreads strife, and a grumbler separates close friends.

The righteous guides his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

And it came about, when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. Saul took him on that day and did not let him return to the house of his father. Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

The boy went, and David rose from beside the south, and fell on his face to the ground and bowed down three times. And they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David wept more. Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, since we have sworn, both of us, in the name of YHWH, saying, ‘YHWH shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” He rose and went, and Jonathan went into the city.

I am in distress over you, my brother Jonathan; you were very pleasant to me; your love to me was more wonderful than the love of women.

But Ruth said, “Do not press me to abandon you, to turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you spend the night, I will spend the night. Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. So may YHWH do to me, and so may he add, if anything but death separates me and you.”

When Job’s three companions heard all this evil that had come upon him, they came, each from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; they arranged to meet together to come to show him sympathy and to comfort him. They lifted up their eyes from a distance and did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept; each tore his robe, and they scattered dust over their heads toward the heavens. They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that the pain was very great.

For it is not an enemy who reproaches me, or I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who has exalted himself against me, or I could hide from him; but you, a mortal of my own worth, my companion and my acquaintance, with whom together we made sweet intimate counsel; in the house of Elohim we walked with the throng.

Make every effort to come to me soon; for Demas, having loved the present age, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be encouraged learning the things about you. For I have no one like-minded who genuinely will care for the things concerning you. For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus the Messiah. But you know his proven character, that as a child with a father, he served as a slave with me for the good news.

No one has greater love 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 slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, look, the one you hold dear is sick.”

Jesus wept. So the Jews were saying, “See how he held him dear!”

And YHWH would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his companion. Then he would return to the camp, but his assistant Joshua son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from inside the tent.

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

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a man who is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’