Bible Verses about Friendship

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• A friend loves at all times;
  and a brother is born for adversity.
  Proverbs 17:17 family relationships
• A man of many companions may be ruined,
  but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
  Proverbs 18:24 family
• Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
  John 15:13 love sacrifice
• 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.
  Ecclesiastes 4:10 relationships neighbor
• See how good and how pleasant it is
  for brothers to live together in unity!
  Psalm 133:1 community family
• He who covers an offense promotes love;
  but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
  Proverbs 17:9 forgiveness
• Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
  1 John 4:7 love neighbor rebirth
• If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
  Ecclesiastes 4:12 relationships strength
• Iron sharpens iron;
  so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.
  Proverbs 27:17 relationships mind
• A perverse man stirs up strife.
  A whisperer separates close friends.
  Proverbs 16:28 honesty gossip lying
• Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
  Ecclesiastes 4:9 relationships work
• To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend;
  even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
  Job 6:14 awe neighbor
• This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
  1 John 4:21 law love
• Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
  1 Corinthians 15:33 evil goodness
• 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.
  Proverbs 27:10 family neighbor
• 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.
  Romans 1:11-12 strength encouragement faith
• 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.
  James 4:4 sin God world
• God sets the lonely in families.
  He brings out the prisoners with singing,
  but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
  Psalm 68:6 freedom obedience punishment