Bible Verses about Friendship

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• A friend loves at all times,
  and kinsfolk are born to share adversity.
  Proverbs 17:17 family relationships
• Some friends play at friendship,
  but a true friend sticks closer than one’s sibling.
  Proverbs 18:24 family
• No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
  John 15:13 love sacrifice
• For if they fall, one will lift up the other, but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help.
  Ecclesiastes 4:10 relationships neighbor
• How very good and pleasant it is
  when kindred live together in unity!
  Psalm 133:1 community family
• One who forgives an affront fosters friendship,
  but one who dwells on disputes will alienate a friend.
  Proverbs 17:9 forgiveness
• Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
  1 John 4:7 love neighbor rebirth
• And though one might prevail against another, two will withstand one. A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
  Ecclesiastes 4:12 relationships strength
• Iron sharpens iron,
  and one person sharpens the wits of another.
  Proverbs 27:17 relationships mind
• Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their toil.
  Ecclesiastes 4:9 relationships work
• Those who withhold kindness from a friend
  forsake the fear of the Almighty.
  Job 6:14 awe neighbor
• Do not be deceived:
  “Bad company ruins good morals.”
  1 Corinthians 15:33 evil goodness
• The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.
  1 John 4:21 law love
• A perverse person spreads strife,
  and a whisperer separates close friends.
  Proverbs 16:28 honesty gossip lying
• Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent;
  do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity.
  Better is a neighbor who is nearby
  than kindred who are far away.
  Proverbs 27:10 family neighbor
• For I long to see you so that I may share with you some spiritual gift so that you may be strengthened— or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.
  Romans 1:11-12 strength encouragement faith
• Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
  James 4:4 sin God world
• God gives the desolate a home to live in;
  he leads out the prisoners to prosperity,
  but the rebellious live in a parched land.
  Psalm 68:6 freedom obedience punishment