Nave’s Topical Bible
Friendship
47 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- General scriptures concerning
Deuteronomy 13:6-9; Job 6:14-15; Job 16:2,20; Job 19:13-22; Psalms 35:13-14; Psalms 41:9; Psalms 55:12-14; Psalms 88:8,18; Proverbs 11:13; Proverbs 17:9,17; Proverbs 18:24; Proverbs 22:24-27; Proverbs 25:17,19; Proverbs 27:6,9-10,14,17,19; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; Amos 3:3; 2 Timothy 4:16
- INSTANCES OF
- Abraham and Lot
- Ruth and Naomi
- Samuel and Saul
- David and Jonathan
1 Samuel 18:1-4; 1 Samuel 20; 1 Samuel 23:16-18; 2 Samuel 1:17-27; 2 Samuel 9:1-13
- David and Abiathar
- David and Nahash
- David and Hiram
- David and Hushai
- David and Ittai
- Joram and Ahaziah
- Job and his three "friends,"
- Daniel and his three companions
- Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, with Jesus
- The Marys, and Joseph of Arimathaea, for Jesus
- Luke and Theophilus
- Paul and his nephew
- Paul, Priscilla, and Aquila
- Paul, Timothy, and Epaphroditus
Bible verses about “Friendship”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Deuteronomy 13:6If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
- Deuteronomy 13:7Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
- Deuteronomy 13:8Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
- Deuteronomy 13:9But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
- Job 6:14To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
- Job 6:15My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
- Job 16:2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
- Job 16:20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
- Job 19:13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
- Job 19:14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
- Job 19:15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
- Job 19:16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
- Job 19:17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
- Job 19:18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
- Job 19:19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
- Job 19:20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- Job 19:21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
- Job 19:22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
- Psalms 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
- Psalms 35:14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
- Psalms 41:9Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
- Psalms 55:12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
- Psalms 55:13But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
- Psalms 55:14We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
- Psalms 88:8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
- Psalms 88:18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
- Proverbs 11:13A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
- Proverbs 17:9He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
- Proverbs 17:17A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
- Proverbs 18:24A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
- Proverbs 22:24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
- Proverbs 22:25Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
- Proverbs 22:26Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
- Proverbs 22:27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
- Proverbs 25:17Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.
- Proverbs 25:19Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
- Proverbs 27:6Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
- Proverbs 27:9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
- Proverbs 27:10Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
- Proverbs 27:14He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.