Bible Verses About Friendship

A friend loves at all times. Verses about faithful friends and being one.

  1. A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
  2. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
  3. 9Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. 10For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up!
  4. As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
  5. A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
  6. Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the sweetness of a friend is counsel to the soul.
  7. Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
  8. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
  9. Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
  10. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
  11. He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
  12. But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
    Ruth 1:16Read in context