Bible verses about friendship
Verses about true friends: loyalty, honesty and carrying each other through hard times. Good to send to a friend today.
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:17
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24
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.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.
Proverbs 27:17
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
Proverbs 27:9
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another…
Romans 12:10
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Proverbs 13:20
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.
John 15:15