John 3:29
3:29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly
when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete.
John 15:13-15
15:13 No one has greater love than this – that one lays down his life
for his friends.
15:14 You are my friends
if you do what I command you.
15:15 I no longer call you slaves,
because the slave does not understand
what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything
I heard
from my Father.
Exodus 33:11
33:11 The
Lord would speak to Moses face to face,
the way a person speaks
to a friend. Then Moses
would return to the camp, but his servant, Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the tent.
Exodus 33:2
33:2 I will send an angel
before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus 20:7
20:7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.
Isaiah 41:8
The Lord Encourages His People
41:8 “You, my servant Israel,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
offspring of Abraham my friend,
James 2:23
2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “
Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,”
and
he was called God’s friend.