15 Uplifting Bible Verses About Friendship

Proverbs 17:17

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

 

John 15:13        

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

 

Proverbs 18:24               

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

 

1 John 4:7         

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

 

Proverbs 16:28               

A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

 

Job 6:14            

Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

 

Proverbs 27:17               

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

 

Ecclesiastes 4:12            

Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

 

1 John 4:21      

And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

 

Ecclesiastes 4:9              

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

 

1 Corinthians 15:33       

Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

 

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.

 

Proverbs 27:10               

Do not forsake your friend or 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.

 

Romans 1:11-12            

I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.

 

Matthew 19:19              

‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’

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