Bible Verses of Friendship

Do everything you can to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way and see that they have everything they need.

Titus 3:13

As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, because I have decided to winter there.

Titus 3:12

I am a friend to all who fear you, to all who follow your precepts.

Psalms 119:63

with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship at the house of God, as we walked about among the worshipers.

Psalms 55:14

But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend,

Psalms 55:13

Even my close friend, someone I trusted, one who shared my bread, has turned against me.

Psalms 41:9

“Do not slander a servant to their master, or they will curse you, and you will pay for it.

Proverbs 30:10

Those who flatter their neighbors are spreading nets for their feet.

Proverbs 29:5

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

Proverbs 27:17

Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative`s house when disaster strikes you— better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.

Proverbs 27:10

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice.

Proverbs 27:9

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

Proverbs 27:6

Do not testify against your neighbor without cause— would you use your lips to mislead?

Proverbs 24:28

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

Proverbs 24:26

or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.

Proverbs 22:25

Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered,

Proverbs 22:24

One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend.

Proverbs 22:11

Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.

Proverbs 22:10

Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.

Proverbs 20:16

Many curry favor with a ruler, and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.

Proverbs 19:6

Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.

Proverbs 19:4

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 18:24

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

Proverbs 17:17

The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.

Proverbs 14:20

Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.

Proverbs 13:20

The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Proverbs 12:26

I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.

Luke 11:8

And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Don`t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can`t get up and give you anything.`

Luke 11:7

a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.`

Luke 11:6

Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread;

Luke 11:5

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.

John 15:15

Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.

Jeremiah 9:5

“Beware of your friends; do not trust anyone in your clan. For every one of them is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer.

Jeremiah 9:4

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.

James 2:23

The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.

Exodus 33:11

and her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses said, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land”;

Exodus 18:3

I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage you.

Ephesians 6:22

Tychicus, the dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will tell you everything, so that you also may know how I am and what I am doing.

Ephesians 6:21

Absalom said to Hushai, “So this is the love you show your friend? If he`s your friend, why didn`t you go with him?”

2 Samuel 16:17

But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David`s wife, to Paltiel son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

1 Samuel 25:44

David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both were his wives.

1 Samuel 25:43

Abigail quickly got on a donkey and, attended by her five female servants, went with David`s messengers and became his wife.

1 Samuel 25:42

She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, “I am your servant and am ready to serve you and wash the feet of my lord`s servants.”

1 Samuel 25:41

His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, “David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.”

1 Samuel 25:40

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise be to the Lord, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal`s wrongdoing down on his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.

1 Samuel 25:39

About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal and he died.

1 Samuel 25:38

Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone.

1 Samuel 25:37

When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.

1 Samuel 25:36

Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.”

1 Samuel 25:35

Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.”

1 Samuel 25:34

May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.

1 Samuel 25:33

David said to Abigail, “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me.

1 Samuel 25:32

my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord your God has brought my lord success, remember your servant.”

1 Samuel 25:31

When the Lord has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel,

1 Samuel 25:30

Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.

1 Samuel 25:29

“Please forgive your servant`s presumption. The Lord your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the Lord`s battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live.

1 Samuel 25:28

And let this gift, which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you.

1 Samuel 25:27

And now, my lord, as surely as the Lord your God lives and as you live, since the Lord has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:26

Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name—his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent.

1 Samuel 25:25

She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say.

1 Samuel 25:24

When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground.

1 Samuel 25:23

May God deal with David, be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!”

1 Samuel 25:22

David had just said, “It`s been useless—all my watching over this fellow`s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good.

1 Samuel 25:21

As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them.

1 Samuel 25:20

Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead; I`ll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:19

Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

1 Samuel 25:18

Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.”

1 Samuel 25:17

Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.

1 Samuel 25:16

Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing.

1 Samuel 25:15

One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal`s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them.

1 Samuel 25:14

David`s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word.

1 Samuel 25:12

Why should I take my bread and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?”

1 Samuel 25:11

Nabal answered David`s servants, “Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days.

1 Samuel 25:10

When David`s men arrived, they gave Nabal this message in David`s name. Then they waited.

1 Samuel 25:9

Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can find for them.`”

1 Samuel 25:8

“‘Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing.

1 Samuel 25:7

Say to him: ‘Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!

1 Samuel 25:6

So he sent ten young men and said to them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name.

1 Samuel 25:5

Jonathan took off the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with his tunic, and even his sword, his bow and his belt.

1 Samuel 18:4

And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

1 Samuel 18:3

After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself.

1 Samuel 18:1

They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and of the Arameans.

1 Kings 10:29

Solomon`s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue—the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price.

1 Kings 10:28

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills.

1 Kings 10:27

Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses, which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

1 Kings 10:26

Year after year, everyone who came brought a gift—articles of silver and gold, robes, weapons and spices, and horses and mules.

1 Kings 10:25

The king had a fleet of trading ships at sea along with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.

1 Kings 10:22

All King Solomon`s goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon`s days.

1 Kings 10:21

Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom.

1 Kings 10:20

The throne had six steps, and its back had a rounded top. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them.

1 Kings 10:19

Then the king made a great throne covered with ivory and overlaid with fine gold.

1 Kings 10:18

He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three minas of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.

1 Kings 10:17

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

1 Kings 10:16

not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the territories.

1 Kings 10:15

The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,

1 Kings 10:14

King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for, besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country.

1 Kings 10:13

The king used the almugwood to make supports for the temple of the Lord and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. So much almugwood has never been imported or seen since that day.)

1 Kings 10:12

(Hiram`s ships brought gold from Ophir; and from there they brought great cargoes of almugwood and precious stones.

1 Kings 10:11

And she gave the king 120 talents of gold, large quantities of spices, and precious stones. Never again were so many spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

1 Kings 10:10

How happy your people must be! How happy your officials, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!

1 Kings 10:8