Bible Verses About Friendship
Read uplifting Bible verses about friendship. Find scripture on true friendship, being a good friend, and the value of godly friendships.
Proverbs 17:17
"A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity."
Proverbs 18:24
"One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."
Proverbs 27:6
"Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses."
Proverbs 27:9
"Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice."
Proverbs 27:17
"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another."
Proverbs 12:26
"The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray."
Proverbs 16:28
"A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends."
Proverbs 17:9
"Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends."
Proverbs 19:4
"Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them."
Proverbs 19:6
"Many curry favor with a ruler, and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts."
Proverbs 22:11
"One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend."
Proverbs 22:24–25
"Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared."
Proverbs 13:20
"Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm."
Proverbs 27:10
"Do not forsake your friend and a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative's house when disaster strikes you—better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away."
Ecclesiastes 4:9–10
"Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up."
Exodus 33:11
"The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent."
1 Samuel 18:1
"After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself."
1 Samuel 20:17
"And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself."
John 15:13
"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."
John 15:14
"You are my friends if you do what I command."
John 15:15
"I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you."
James 2:23
"And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend."
James 4:4
"You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God."
Job 6:14
"Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty."