Bible Verses About Friendship

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.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

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.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man. Don’t associate with one who harbors anger,

lest you learn his ways and ensnare your soul.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

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.

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn in the LORD’s name, saying, ‘The LORD is between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another,

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.