As ¹  iron sharpens ²  iron, so a person ³  sharpens his friend. ⁴ 

Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.

Our dear friend Luke the physician and Demas greet you.

Absalom said to Hushai, “Do you call this loyalty to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

So David’s friend Hushai arrived in the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.

Yes, you would gamble ¹  for the fatherless, and auction off ²  your friend.

My intercessor is my friend ¹  as my eyes pour out ²  tears to God;

and ¹  he contends with God on behalf of man as a man ²  pleads ³  for his friend.

But it is you, ¹  a man like me, ²  my close friend in whom I confided. ³ 

I am a friend to all your loyal followers, ¹  and to those who keep your precepts.

A friend ¹  loves at all times, and a relative ²  is born to help in adversity. ³ 

Wealth adds many friends, but a poor person is separated ¹  from his friend. ² 

Faithful ¹  are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses ²  of an enemy are excessive. ³ 

“You, my servant Israel, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend, ¹ 

When ¹  Jesus ²  saw their ³  faith he said, “Friend, ⁴  your sins are forgiven.” ⁵ 

Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my good friend Stachys.

Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not enter your brother’s house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away. ¹ 

Then ¹  he said to them, “Suppose one of you ²  has a friend, and you go to him ³  at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, ⁴ 

Now Abimelech had come ¹  to him from Gerar along with ²  Ahuzzah his friend ³  and Phicol the commander of his army.

“To the one in despair, kindness ¹  should come from his friend ²  even if ³  he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.