19 Bible Verses about Friendship

 

• A friend loves at all times,
  and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
  Proverbs 17:17
• Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
  John 15:13

• One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,
  but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
  Proverbs 18:24
• Whoever would foster love covers over an offense,
  but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
  Proverbs 17:9
• How good and pleasant it is
  when God’s people live together in unity!
  Psalm 133:1
• If either of them falls down,
  one can help the other up.
  But pity anyone who falls
  and has no one to help them up.
  Ecclesiastes 4:10
• Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
  1 John 4:7
• Though one may be overpowered,
  two can defend themselves.
  A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
  Ecclesiastes 4:12
• A perverse person stirs up conflict,
  and a gossip separates close friends.
  Proverbs 16:28
• Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend
  forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
  Job 6:14
• And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
  1 John 4:21
• As iron sharpens iron,
  so one person sharpens another.
  Proverbs 27:17
• Two are better than one,
  because they have a good return for their labor.
  Ecclesiastes 4:9
• Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
  1 Corinthians 15:33
• You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
  James 4:4
• Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family,
  and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you—
  better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
  Proverbs 27:10
• I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.
  Romans 1:11-12
• ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’
  Matthew 19:19
• God sets the lonely in families,
  he leads out the prisoners with singing;
  but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
  Psalm 68:6