What Does the Bible Say About Love Of A Friend?

1 John 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

2 Timothy 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Romans 1:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

John 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

2 Samuel 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

John 15:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Luke 17:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, ...

Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

Isaiah 41:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

Ecclesiastes 5:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 7:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.

Psalm 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him.

1 Samuel 20:1-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?” And he said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. And why should my father hide this from me? It is not so.” But David vowed again, saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.” Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you say, I will do for you.” David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit at table with the king. But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening. ...

1 Samuel 18:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father's house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt. And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants. ...

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Genesis 29:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

26 Bible Verses about Love Of A Friend

1 John 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 1:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Samuel 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 17:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 41:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 5:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 7:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 20:1-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 18:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 29:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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26 Bible Verses about Love Of A Friend

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1 John 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 1:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Samuel 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 17:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 41:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 5:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 7:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 20:1-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 18:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 29:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes