God as Friend

John 15:15

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Exodus 33:11

The LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

James 2:23

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Romans 5:10

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

Hebrews 2:11

For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Job 29:4

As I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,