In the course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died. When Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the woman's hand, he did not find her.

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which neither you nor your fathers have known,

“So may all your enemies perish, O Lord! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” And the land had rest for forty years.

Boaz Redeems Ruth

Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, “Turn aside, friend; sit down here.” And he turned aside and sat down.

David and Jonathan's Friendship

As 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.

When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the Lord.”

Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “Am I a dog's head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother. And Jonadab was a very crafty man.

So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.

And when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”

And Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”

Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king's friend;

When he began to reign, as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he struck down all the house of Baasha. He did not leave him a single male of his relatives or his friends.

So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining.

David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in friendship to help me, my heart will be joined to you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you.”

Ahithophel was the king's counselor, and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend.

Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?

Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and brought his friends and his wife Zeresh.

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast.” This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.

And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him.”

Job's Three Friends

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.

“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.

I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.

My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.

All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.

Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,

Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

He burned with anger also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

I will answer you and your friends with you.

The Lord Rebukes Job's Friends

After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.

The Lord Restores Job's Fortunes

And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,

who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.

I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.

My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.

Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.

My companion stretched out his hand against his friends; he violated his covenant.

You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend,

The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends.

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

Many seek the favor of a generous man, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

All a poor man's brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.

He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Do not forsake your friend and 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 who is far away.

He

I came to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gathered my myrrh with my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank my wine with my milk.

Others

Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love!

His mouth is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

Have you not just now called to me, ‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—

Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.’”

For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you.”

What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you like those of a woman in labor?

For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall strike them down with the sword.

And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. To Babylon you shall go, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.”

For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” say all my close friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him.”

Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying, “‘Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the mud, they turn away from you.’

She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.

Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;

Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch.

And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’ he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”

But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?

And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.

Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you came to do.” Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.

And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”

And Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to him, “Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,

for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’;

I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.

Have No Fear

“I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.

But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.

The Parable of the Great Banquet

He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’

And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’

but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.

You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.

And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been at enmity with each other.

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.

After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.”

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.

From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”

The Believers Pray for Boldness

When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

And on the following day they entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

Barnabas and Saul Sent Off

Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

And even some of the Asiarchs, who were friends of his, sent to him and were urging him not to venture into the theater.

Then he gave orders to the centurion that he should be kept in custody but have some liberty, and that none of his friends should be prevented from attending to his needs.

The next day we put in at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him leave to go to his friends and be cared for.

By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.

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.

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.

Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, each by name.