Bible Verses About Great Friends

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

"Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail."

"They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."

"The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.”"

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us."

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

"He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward."

"He must become greater; I must become less."

"I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father."

"“You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I."

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

"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."

"Remember the words I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also."

"Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."

"or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King."

"But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!"

"Therefore, my brothers, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, that is how you should stand firm in the Lord, dear friends!"

"I rejoice greatly in the Lord that at last you have renewed your concern for me. Indeed, you have been concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it."

"You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent."

"Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord."

"Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing."

"Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven."

"Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry."

"while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,"

"But eagerly desire the greater gifts. Love And now I will show you the most excellent way."