What Does the Bible Say About Making Friends?

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Proverbs 27:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Proverbs 22:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,

John 15:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

Exodus 23:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,

Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Proverbs 1:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

11 Bible Verses about Making Friends