No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends (philous | φίλους | acc pl masc), because all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
These things he said, and after that he told them, “Our friend (philos | φίλος | nom sg masc) Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him from sleep.”
It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the friend (philos | φίλος | nom sg masc) of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.
And Herod and Pilate became friends (philoi | φίλοι | nom pl masc) with each other that very day, for before this they had been hostile toward one other.
And I say to you, make friends (philous | φίλους | acc pl masc) for yourselves by means of the wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal homes.
but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disregarded a command of yours, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends (philōn | φίλων | gen pl masc).
And when she finds it, would she not call together her friends (philas | φίλας | acc pl fem) and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost’?
