Bible Verses About Friendship (32+ Verses)

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

"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."

"One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."

"Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm."

"Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor."

"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another."

"Do not be misled: 'Bad company corrupts good character.'"

"Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice."

"If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up."

"I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends."

"Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses."

"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God."

"Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do."

"“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty."

"A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends."

"And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms."

"Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up."

"He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends."

"A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray."

"“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them."

"that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine."

"You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."

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

"“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even 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 whatever I command you."

"Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul. Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts. If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?"

"“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even 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 whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you."

"If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love."

"Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him."

"Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me."

"Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man."

"Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.” Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel."

"Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do. Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection."