Friendship
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Friendship’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 64 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor…
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Job 6:14 OT
“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
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Job 6:15 OT
My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;
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Job 16:2 OT
“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
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Job 16:20 OT
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
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Job 19:13-22 OT
“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their…
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Psalms 35:13 OT
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
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Psalms 35:14 OT
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
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Psalms 41:9 OT
Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
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For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him. But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar…
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Psalms 88:8 OT
You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.
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Psalms 88:18 OT
You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.
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One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.
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He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
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A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
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A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
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Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul. Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts. If you don’t have means…
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Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.
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Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a lame foot.
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The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
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Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
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Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.
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He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.
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Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.