What Does the Bible Say About How To Have Healthy Friendships?

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV / 5 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 27:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

1 Peter 4:8-10 ESV / 4 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:

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 4 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.

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 4 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.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

John 15:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

11 Bible Verses about How To Have Healthy Friendships

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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Colossians 3:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 12:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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11 Bible Verses about How To Have Healthy Friendships

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Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 12:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes