Bible Verses About Friendship

43 Bible verses about friendship

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

   Proverbs 17:17 KJV

2. A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

   Proverbs 18:24 KJV

3. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

   Proverbs 27:6 KJV

4. Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

   Proverbs 27:9 KJV

5. Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

   Proverbs 27:17 KJV

6. Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

   Proverbs 22:24 KJV

7. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

   Proverbs 13:20 KJV

8. The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

   Proverbs 12:26 KJV

9. A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

   Proverbs 16:28 KJV

10. A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

    Proverbs 11:13 KJV

11. Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

    Proverbs 19:20 KJV

12. ¹³Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. ¹⁵Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

    John 15:13-15 KJV

13. ⁹Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. ¹⁰For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. ¹¹Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? ¹²And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

    Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 KJV

14. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

    1 Samuel 18:1 KJV

15. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

    1 Samuel 18:3 KJV

16. And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.

    1 Samuel 20:42 KJV

17. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

    2 Samuel 1:26 KJV

18. ¹⁶And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: ¹⁷Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

    Ruth 1:16-17 KJV

19. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

    Romans 12:10 KJV

20. ¹⁵Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. ¹⁶Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

    Romans 12:15-16 KJV

21. Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

    Galatians 6:2 KJV

22. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

    Ephesians 4:32 KJV

23. ¹³Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. ¹⁴And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

    Colossians 3:13-14 KJV

24. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

    1 Thessalonians 5:11 KJV

25. ²⁴And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: ²⁵Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

    Hebrews 10:24-25 KJV

26. Let brotherly love continue.

    Hebrews 13:1 KJV

27. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

    James 4:4 KJV

28. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

    1 John 1:7 KJV

29. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

    Psalms 133:1 KJV

30. Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

    Proverbs 27:10 KJV

31. Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.

    Proverbs 25:17 KJV

32. Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

    1 Corinthians 15:33 KJV

33. Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

    Amos 3:3 KJV

34. Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

    Job 2:11 KJV