Bible verses about friendship

What a good friend is

Proverbs’ portrait of the friend everyone wants.

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

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

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

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4. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

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

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6. 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.

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7. If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

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

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Being a good friend

How to show up for the people you love.

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

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2. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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

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4. Doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

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5. 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.

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6. And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

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7. Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

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8. Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God…”

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9. “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”

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10. Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

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Choosing friends wisely

Who you spend time with shapes who you become.

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

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2. A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

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

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4. Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

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5. Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

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6. Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

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Short Bible verses about friendship

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1. Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

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2. Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

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3. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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

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

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