Bible Verses About Friendship
Scriptures on loyal, faithful, God-centered friendship.
The deepest bonds of the soul are often those forged in the fires of shared experience and common faith. A true companion is a gift from God, someone who will stick closer than a brother and point you back to the Father in every season. By building relationships on the foundation of kindness, we find the support we need to navigate life's greatest challenges. Treasure these connections as a primary way that God provides encouragement for your journey.
Key Passages
"A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
"And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul."
"All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him."
"A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."
"¶ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour."
"Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel."
"For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
"Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;"
"Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you."
"Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye."
"Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend."
"Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners."
"Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do."
"To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty."
"Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."
"He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed."
"A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends."
"And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God."
"Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul."
"And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."
"He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends."
"For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,"
"I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women."
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