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Bible Verses About Friendship

True friendship is a precious gift. The Bible teaches us what genuine friendship looks like — loyal, honest, sacrificial, and rooted in love.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:13

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow.
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends.

John 15:15

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another.

Romans 12:10

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any.
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go.
Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?

James 4:4

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.