John 14:12-16
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants,[a] 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.

Romans 5:10
10 For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son.

5 Things It Takes to Create a True Friendship

1

Proverbs 18:24
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

2

Proverbs 27:5-6
Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Proverbs 27:17
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Proverbs 28:22
A stingy man[d] hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.

Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

3

Proverbs 27:9
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

4

Proverbs 25:17
Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he have his fill of you and hate you.

Proverbs 26:19
is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I am only joking!”

5

Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.