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Bible Verses About Friendship

A true friend, Scripture says, loves at all times and sharpens us like iron sharpens iron. These Bible verses about friendship celebrate the companions God places beside us.

Proverbs 17:17

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A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

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

John 15:13

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Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Proverbs 27:9

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Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

Proverbs 18:24

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A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

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Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Proverbs 27:17

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Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Romans 12:10

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In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

Colossians 3:12-14

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Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do. Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Proverbs 13:20

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One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

1 Corinthians 15:33

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Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

John 15:15

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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.

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