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Bible Verses About Friendship

What makes a true friend? These verses and scriptures about friendship describe loyalty, encouragement, and the kind of love that lays down its life for a friend.

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.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 →

9Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 10For 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.

John 15:13 →

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

Proverbs 27:17 →

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

1 Thessalonians 5:11 →

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

Proverbs 27:9 →

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

1 Corinthians 15:33 →

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

Romans 12:10 →

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

Proverbs 13:20 →

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

John 15:14-15 →

14You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. 15No 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.

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