Bible verses about Friendship
Verses about true friendship and the bond between believers.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:17A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the sweetness of a friend is counsel to the soul.
Proverbs 27:9As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
Proverbs 27:17Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.
Ecclesiastes 4:9For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up!
Ecclesiastes 4:10And though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:12Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13You are My friends if you do what I command you.
John 15:14No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
John 15:15And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.
James 2:23Thus the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun would not leave the tent.
Exodus 33:11After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
1 Samuel 18:1Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
1 Corinthians 15:33Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
Romans 12:10The wounds of a friend are faithful, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs 27:6And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.
1 Samuel 20:17Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.
Job 2:11