Top 25 Bible Verses About Jesus As A Friend (NIV)

¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

²⁴ A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

¹⁷ A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

²³ And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend.

¹⁷ As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command.

²⁶ A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

²⁴ Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered, ²⁵ or you may learn his ways and get yourself ensnared.

⁴ You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

³³ Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character."

²⁸ A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends.

⁹ Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel.

²⁰ He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

⁵ Better is open rebuke than hidden love. ⁶ Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.

¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

⁶ Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.

¹¹ When Job's three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

⁸ Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

² Elijah said to Elisha, "Stay here; the LORD has sent me to Bethel." But Elisha said, "As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.

¹ After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself. ² From that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return to his father's house. ³ And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

²⁸ "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

⁸ But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

²⁰ Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.

¹ How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.