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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.
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.
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.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another,
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
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.
Scripture: World English Bible (WEB), public domain. Verse selections © Gospel Companion.