Divine Bible Verses for Friendship

Celebrate the gift of true friendship with these scriptures. Discover what God's word says about loyal, loving friends.

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Discover the power of friendship through these carefully selected Bible verses. Each scripture has been curated to provide comfort, guidance, and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

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Proverbs 17:17

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

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Proverbs 27:9

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

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Ecclesiastes 4:9–10

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!

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Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

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John 15:13

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

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Proverbs 18:24

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

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1 Samuel 18:1–3

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.

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Proverbs 22:24–25

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.

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1 Thessalonians 5:11

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

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Hebrews 10:24–25

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.

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Proverbs 13:20

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

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Job 2:11–13

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. And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven. And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

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Proverbs 12:26

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

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Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.

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James 4:4

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.

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1 Corinthians 15:33

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

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Philippians 2:3–4

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.

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Romans 12:10

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

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Colossians 3:13

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.

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Galatians 6:2

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

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