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100 Bible Verses about Friendship-

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 552 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 537 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 / 455 helpful votes

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 422 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 368 helpful votes

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

John 15:13 ESV / 366 helpful votes

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

Job 6:14 ESV / 351 helpful votes

“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 326 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 320 helpful votes

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

James 4:4 ESV / 293 helpful votes

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV / 277 helpful votes

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!

Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 276 helpful votes

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 268 helpful votes

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 253 helpful votes

One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 238 helpful votes

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Luke 6:31 ESV / 226 helpful votes

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 222 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 216 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

1 Peter 4:8-10 ESV / 206 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 200 helpful votes

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 192 helpful votes

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Psalm 133:1 ESV / 189 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 188 helpful votes

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.

Ecclesiastes 4:10 ESV / 182 helpful votes

For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!

1 John 4:7 ESV / 178 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 Samuel 18:1-3 ESV / 173 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.

Proverbs 27:10 ESV / 171 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.

Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 169 helpful votes

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

John 15:12-15 ESV / 164 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Job 2:11 ESV / 162 helpful votes

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 155 helpful votes

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

John 15:15 ESV / 149 helpful votes

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 145 helpful votes

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

Romans 1:12 ESV / 138 helpful votes

That is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.

Proverbs 27:5-6 ESV / 137 helpful votes

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

John 15:12-14 ESV / 131 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 131 helpful votes

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 120 helpful votes

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

2 Kings 2:2 ESV / 118 helpful votes

And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 113 helpful votes

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

James 2:23 ESV / 109 helpful votes

And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 106 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Job 16:20-21 ESV / 105 helpful votes

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.

Psalm 68:6 ESV / 100 helpful votes

God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

1 John 4:21 ESV / 99 helpful votes

And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Proverbs 22:24-27 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

Proverbs 24:5 ESV / 96 helpful votes

A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,

Proverbs 17:1-28 ESV / 96 helpful votes

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers. The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts. An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue. Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished. ...

Proverbs 22:11 ESV / 94 helpful votes

He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

John 15:12-13 ESV / 83 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Romans 1:11-12 ESV / 80 helpful votes

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you— that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.

Romans 12:10-11 ESV / 79 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.

Job 42:10 ESV / 77 helpful votes

And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Proverbs 18:2 ESV / 75 helpful votes

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

Exodus 33:11 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

John 15:12 ESV / 69 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Proverbs 18:1-24 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace. The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice. ...

Job 29:4 ESV / 65 helpful votes

As I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 64 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; ...

James 4:8 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

James 4:11 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

John 4:1-7:53 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ...

Job 6:1-14:22 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Then Job answered and said: “Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash. For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me. Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder? ...

Matthew 18:20 ESV / 54 helpful votes

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Job 16:20 ESV / 51 helpful votes

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

Proverbs 17:1-19:29 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers. The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts. An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue. Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished. ...

John 15:13-15 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

John 15:2 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

James 4:3 ESV / 40 helpful votes

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Ecclesiastes 4:10-12 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

1 Samuel 18:1 ESV / 40 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.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 39 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 39 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

Ruth 1:16 ESV / 38 helpful votes

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.

Ecclesiastes 4:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:1-9:18 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them. And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive. But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun. Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh. ...

Proverbs 16:1-28:28 ESV / 30 helpful votes

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit. Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established. The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished. ...

1 John 1:9 ESV / 28 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

John 4:21-23 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

1 Samuel 20:42 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Then Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 27 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Romans 5:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Proverbs 20:6 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?

1 Samuel 20:17 ESV / 26 helpful votes

And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

Psalm 55:12-14 ESV / 25 helpful votes

For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend. We used to take sweet counsel together; within God's house we walked in the throng.

1 Samuel 18:1-4 ESV / 24 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.

Isaiah 41:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:2 ESV / 21 helpful votes

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

1 Samuel 18:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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.

Amos 3:3 ESV / 19 helpful votes

“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?

Proverbs 14:6-7 ESV / 19 helpful votes

A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding. Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.

Proverbs 3:32 ESV / 19 helpful votes

For the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.

Psalm 133:1-2 ESV / 19 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes!

John 15:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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

Psalm 37:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.

2 Samuel 10:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And David said, “I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me.” So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the Ammonites.

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