Bible verses about friendship
The best thing anybody does for a friend in the whole Bible takes seven days and involves no speaking at all. These passages are set out with a sentence on each, and they are franker about bad friends than the subject usually allows.
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity. — Proverbs 17:17 · WEB
The chapter is preoccupied with what people do to each other, and it ends by pointing out that a fool who says nothing passes for wise.
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance. — Proverbs 27:17 · WEB
The chapter is about friendship, and its central claim is that a friend's wounds are more trustworthy than an enemy's affection.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. — John 15:13 · WEB
The measure of the love is named, and the relationship is renamed on the night before it is proved.
When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. — 1 Samuel 18:1 · WEB
A prince gives away his robe and his sword; a king counts the numbers in a song and starts throwing spears.
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him. — Job 2:11 · WEB
The best thing the friends do for Job takes a week and involves no speech at all.
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, surpassing the love of women. — 2 Samuel 1:26 · WEB
The lament for Saul and Jonathan — no politics, no verdict, no mention of God: only grief, taught to the nation as a song.
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 4:10 · WEB
Four practical arguments for company answer the solitary man of the previous verse, and then a success story is followed forward until it too is forgotten.
Do two walk together, unless they have agreed? — Amos 3:3 · WEB
Seven questions about cause and effect build one conclusion, and the conclusion is that the prophet had no choice.
The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse. — Proverbs 27:6 · WEB
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 · WEB
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. — Proverbs 18:24 · WEB
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm. — Proverbs 13:20 · WEB
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.” — 1 Corinthians 15:33 · WEB
Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man. Don’t associate with one who harbors anger, — Proverbs 22:24 · WEB
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Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep. — Romans 12:15 · WEB