Friendship
Loyal friends in the wisdom books, and Jesus's own claim to call his disciples friends.
Prov 17:17
Read in full chapter →17A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
See also: Proverbs 18:24, John 15:13-14
Prov 18:24
Read in full chapter →24A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
See also: Proverbs 17:17, John 15:13-15
Prov 27:17
Read in full chapter →17Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
See also: Hebrews 10:24, Proverbs 27:9
Eccl 4:9-10
Read in full chapter →9Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
See also: Proverbs 27:17, Genesis 2:18
10For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
See also: The Story of Ahikar 2:30, 1 Thessalonians 5:11
John 15:13-15
Read in full chapter →13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
See also: The Apocalypse of Sedrach 1:3, Romans 5:8
14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
See also: Deuteronomy 28:1, Luke 5:5
15Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
See also: Amos 3:7, Psalms 25:14