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Exodus 33:11 — Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
Deuteronomy 13:6 — "If your brother, your mother's son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, `Let us go and serve other gods' (whom neither you nor your fathers have known,
2 Chronicles 20:7 — ~"Did You not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?
Job 2:11 — Now when Job's three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort him.
Job 6:14 — "For the despairing man {there should be} kindness from his friend; So that he does not forsake the fear of the Almighty.
Job 12:4 — "I am a joke to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just {and} blameless {man} is a joke.
Job 17:5 — "He who informs against friends for a share {of the spoil,} The eyes of his children also will languish.
Job 29:4 — As I was in (Lit {the days of my autumn}) the prime of my days, When the friendship of God {was} over my tent;
Job 32:3 — And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job 42:10 — The LORD restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the LORD increased all that Job had twofold.
Psalms 15:3 — He does not slander with his tongue, Nor does evil to his neighbor, Nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
Psalms 41:9 — Even my close friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me.
Proverbs 12:26 — The righteous is a guide to his neighbor, But the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Proverbs 14:20 — The poor is hated even by his neighbor, But those who love the rich are many.
Proverbs 16:28 — A perverse man spreads strife, And a slanderer separates intimate friends.
Proverbs 17:9 — He who conceals a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matter separates intimate friends.
Proverbs 17:17 — A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:24 — A man of {too many} friends {comes} to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 19:4 — Wealth adds many friends, But a poor man is separated from his friend.
Proverbs 22:11 — He who loves purity of heart {And} whose speech is gracious, the king is his friend.
Proverbs 22:24 — Do not associate with a man {given} to anger; Or go with a hot-tempered man,
Proverbs 27:6 — Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.
Proverbs 27:9-10 — Oil and perfume make the heart glad, So a man's counsel is sweet to his friend.
Do not forsake your own friend or your father's friend, And do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity; Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.
Proverbs 27:14 — He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning, It will be reckoned a curse to him.
Proverbs 27:17 — Iron sharpens iron, So one man sharpens another.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 — Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor.
For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.
Isaiah 41:8 — "But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, Descendant of Abraham My friend,
Micah 7:5 — Do not trust in a neighbor; Do not have confidence in a friend. From her who lies in your bosom Guard your lips.
Micah 7:6 — For son treats father contemptuously, Daughter rises up against her mother, Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; A man's enemies are the men of his own household.
Micah 7:7 — But as for me, I will watch expectantly for the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Matthew 9:15 — And Jesus said to them, "The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
Matthew 11:19 — ~"The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, `Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds."
Matthew 26:48-50 — Now he who was betraying Him gave them a sign, saying, "Whomever I kiss, He is the one; seize Him."
Immediately Judas went to Jesus and said, "Hail, Rabbi!" and kissed Him.
And Jesus said to him, "Friend, {do} what you have come for." Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and seized Him.
Luke 11:5-8 — Then He said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and goes to him at midnight and says to him, `Friend, lend me three loaves;
for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him';
and from inside he answers and says, `Do not bother me; the door has already been shut and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you {anything.}'
~"I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him {anything} because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
Luke 14:12-14 — And He also went on to say to the one who had invited Him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, otherwise they may also invite you in return and {that} will be your repayment.
~"But when you give a reception, invite {the} poor, {the} crippled, {the} lame, {the} blind,
and you will be blessed, since they do not have {the means} to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."
Luke 21:16-17 — ~"But you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put {some} of you to death,
and you will be hated by all because of My name.
John 3:29 — ~"He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine has been made full.
John 11:11 — This He said, and after that He *said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him out of sleep."
John 15:13-15 — ~"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
~"You are My friends if you do what I command you.
~"No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
John 19:12 — As a result of this Pilate made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, "If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out {to be} a king opposes Caesar."
Acts 24:23 — Then he gave orders to the centurion for him to be kept in custody and {yet} have {some} freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from ministering to him.
Acts 27:3 — The next day we put in at Sidon; and Julius treated Paul with consideration and allowed him to go to his friends and receive care.
Philemon 1:1 — Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,
To Philemon our beloved {brother} and fellow worker,
James 2:23 — and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS," and he was called the friend of God.
James 4:4 — You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
3 John 1:14 — but I hope to see you shortly, and we will speak face to face.
This topic is from the BibleSteak Team.
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