Bible Verses about Friendship
| A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity. | A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity. |
| A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. | A person of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. |
| Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. | Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends. |
| For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up. | 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! |
| See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! | Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brothers to live together in unity! |
| He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends. | One who conceals an offense seeks love, But one who repeats a matter separates close friends. |
| Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. | Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. |
| If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. | And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart. |
| Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance. | As iron sharpens iron, So one person sharpens another. |
| A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends. | A perverse person spreads strife, And a slanderer separates close friends. |
| To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. | For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend; So that he does not abandon the fear of the Almighty. |
| This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother. | And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God must also love his brother and sister. |
| Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. | Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. |
| Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.” | Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.” |
| Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother. | 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. |
| For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established; that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine. | 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. |
| You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. | 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. |
| God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land. | God makes a home for the lonely; He leads out the prisoners into prosperity, Only the rebellious live in parched lands. |
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