3. World’s Definition of “Friend” Webster: “One who is attached to another by affection or esteem, a favored companion” Oxford: “A person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection…”
5. Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
6. Proverbs 18:24 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
7. Proverbs 27:9 Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
8. Ruth 1:16-17 (16) But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.(17) Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
10. John 15:15 (15) No longer do I call you servants, 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.
11. John 15:13 (13) Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
12. Romans 5:6-8 (6) For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.(7) For one will scarcely die for a righteous person--though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die--(8) but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
