Bible Verses About Friendship

Bible verses about friendship praise loyalty, honest counsel, and love that holds through trouble. Proverbs 17:17 says A friend loves at all times; Proverbs 18:24 speaks of a friend who sticks closer than a brother; and John 15:13 says Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Verses

Proverbs 17:17. A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 18:24. A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 27:17. Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Proverbs 27:9. Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

John 15:13. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:15. 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.

Ecclesiastes 4:9–10. 9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 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.

1 Samuel 18:1–3. 1 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. 2 Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more. 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Proverbs 27:6. The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Proverbs 22:24–25. 24 Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man. Don’t associate with one who harbors anger, 25 lest you learn his ways and ensnare your soul.

Romans 12:10. In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another,

1 Thessalonians 5:11. Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Proverbs 13:20. One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Ruth 1:16–17. 16 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. 17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

James 2:23. So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

Hebrews 10:24–25. 24 Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, 25 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.

Job 6:14. “To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.