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"As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend." ~Proverbs 27:17
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." ~Henry Ward Beecher
"The righteous should choose his friends carefully, For the way of the wicked leads them astray." ~Proverbs 12:26
"A friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity." ~Proverbs 17:17
"A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother." Proverbs 18:24
"Make no friendship with an angry man, And with a furious man do not go," Proverbs 22:24
"Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."
"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things I heard from My Father I have made known to you." Jesus Christ in John 15:13-15
"Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself and enemy of God." ~James 4:4
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