Bible Verses for Friendship Esv

"Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.’”"

"And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’"

"And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’"

"The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends."

"Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me."

"He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid."

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

"But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend."

"You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness."

"Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry."

"Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard."

"Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is."

"Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;"

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world."

"Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul."