Bible Verses about Friendship

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• A friend loves at all times,
  And a brother is born for adversity.
  Proverbs 17:17familyrelationships
• A person of too many friends comes to ruin,
  But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
  Proverbs 18:24family
• Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends.
  John 15:13lovesacrifice
• For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up!
  Ecclesiastes 4:10relationshipsneighbor
• Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
  For brothers to live together in unity!
  Psalm 133:1communityfamily
• One who conceals an offense seeks love,
  But one who repeats a matter separates close friends.
  Proverbs 17:9forgiveness
• Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
  1 John 4:7loveneighborrebirth
• And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.
  Ecclesiastes 4:12relationshipsstrength
• As iron sharpens iron,
  So one person sharpens another.
  Proverbs 27:17relationshipsmind
• A perverse person spreads strife,
  And a slanderer separates close friends.
  Proverbs 16:28honestygossiplying
• For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend;
  So that he does not abandon the fear of the Almighty.
  Job 6:14aweneighbor
• And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.
  1 John 4:21lawlove
• Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor.
  Ecclesiastes 4:9relationshipswork
• Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
  1 Corinthians 15:33evilgoodness
• Do not abandon your friend or your father’s friend,
  And do not go to your brother’s house on the day of your disaster;
  Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.
  Proverbs 27:10familyneighbor
• For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established; that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
  Romans 1:11-12strengthencouragementfaith
• You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
  James 4:4sinGodworld
• God makes a home for the lonely;
  He leads out the prisoners into prosperity,
  Only the rebellious live in parched lands.
  Psalm 68:6freedomobediencepunishment