John 15:13 ESV / 305 helpful votesGreater love has no one than
this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.Ecclesiastes
4:10 ESV / 230 helpful votesFor if they fall, one will lift up his
fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not
another to lift him up!Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 209 helpful votesA man
of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who
sticks closer than a brother.Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 152 helpful
votesWhoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of
fools will suffer harm.Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 150 helpful votesA
friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for
adversity.Psalm 41:9 ESV / 91 helpful votesEven my close friend in
whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against
me.John 15:15 ESV / 84 helpful votesNo longer do I call you
servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing;
but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my
Father I have made known to you.Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 77 helpful
votesIron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.Psalm
55:12-14 ESV / 66 helpful votesFor it is not an enemy who taunts me
then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently
with me then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal,
my companion, my familiar friend. We used to take sweet counsel
together; within God's house we walked in the throng.1 Samuel 18:3
ESV / 50 helpful votesThen Jonathan made a covenant with David,
because he loved him as his own soul.Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 47
helpful votesTwo are better than one, because they have a good
reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his
fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not
another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm,
but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail
against one who is alone, two will withstand hima threefold cord is
not quickly broken.John 15:14 ESV / 34 helpful votesYou are my
friends if you do what I command you.Romans 1:8 ESV / 24 helpful
votesFirst, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you,
because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.Ecclesiastes 4:12
ESV / 19 helpful votesAnd though a man might prevail against one
who is alone, two will withstand hima threefold cord is not quickly
broken.Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 19 helpful votesTwo are better than
one, because they have a good reward for their toil.1 Samuel 18:1
ESV / 19 helpful votesAs soon as he had finished speaking to Saul,
the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan
loved him as his own soul.Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 18 helpful
votesPut on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved,
compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against
another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you
also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds
everything together in perfect harmony.Psalm 88:18 ESV / 17 helpful
votesYou have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my
companions have become darkness.Psalm 1:1 ESV / 17 helpful
votesBlessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of
scoffers;2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 13 helpful votesTherefore, if
anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away;
behold, the new has come.Romans 12:15 ESV / 12 helpful votesRejoice
with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.Psalm 55:20 ESV /
12 helpful votesMy companion stretched out his hand against his
friends; he violated his covenant.1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 11 helpful
votesI desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting
holy hands without anger or quarreling;James 2:23 ESV / 10 helpful
votesAnd the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed
God, and it was counted to him as righteousnessand he was called a
friend of God.Psalm 35:11-16 ESV / 10 helpful votesMalicious
witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know. They
repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft. But I, when they were
sick I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed
with head bowed on my chest. I went about as though I grieved for
my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed
down in mourning. But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;
they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know
tore at me without ceasing; ...Proverbs 3:3 ESV / 9 helpful
votesLet not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them
around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.1
Corinthians 15:1-58 ESV / 8 helpful votesNow I would remind you,
brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in
which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast
to the word I preached to youunless you believed in vain. For I
delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that
Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he
was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with
the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
...John 15:14-15 ESV / 8 helpful votesYou are my friends if you do
what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the
servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called
you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made
known to you.John 15:14-25 ESV / 8 helpful votesYou are my friends
if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for
the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have
called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have
made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and
appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit
should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he
may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will
love one another. If the world hates you, know that it has hated me
before it hated you. ...John 3:15 ESV / 7 helpful votesThat whoever
believes in him may have eternal life.Colossians 3:13 ESV / 6
helpful votesBearing with one another and, if one has a complaint
against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven
you, so you also must forgive.Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 6 helpful
votesThe words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught
him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my
womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength
to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for
kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers
to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been
decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...Matthew
10:34-38 ESV / 5 helpful votesDo not think that I have come to
bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a
sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a
daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her
mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own
household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not
worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not
worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is
not worthy of me.1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful
Not HelpfulDo not be deceived: Bad company ruins good morals.Isaiah
1:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votesThe vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz,
which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah,
Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and
give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: Children have I reared
and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its
owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know,
my people do not understand. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with
iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They
have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel,
they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why
will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole
heart faint. ...Proverbs 29:5 ESV / 4 helpful votesA man who
flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.Micah 7:5 ESV / 2
helpful votesPut no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a
friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your
arms;
