What Does the Bible Say About Jesus As A Friend?

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John 15:15 ESV / 1,422 helpful votes 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 15:13 ESV / 1,234 helpful votes Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 1,073 helpful votes A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 1,067 helpful votes A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.James 2:23 ESV / 791 helpful votes And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 728 helpful votes Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.John 15:14 ESV / 664 helpful votes You are my friends if you do what I command you.Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 598 helpful votes One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 516 helpful votes Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.James 4:4 ESV / 501 helpful votes You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 494 helpful votes Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 479 helpful votes A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 474 helpful votes Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 456 helpful votes Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.Proverbs 27:5-6 ESV / 416 helpful votes Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.John 15:12-15 ESV / 411 helpful votes “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You 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.Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 404 helpful votes Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.Job 2:11 ESV / 387 helpful votes Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.

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