Bible Verses About Friendship
Verses about loyal friendship, loving your neighbor, and the gift of true community.
Friendship is one of God's most practical blessings — someone who walks with you, sharpens you, and stays when others leave. These Bible verses on friendship reveal what true companionship looks like: loyal at all times, sacrificial in love, willing to speak truth. Jesus called His disciples friends, not servants. Ruth stayed when she had every reason to go. David and Jonathan made a covenant that outlasted kingdoms. These scriptures will inspire you to pursue deep friendship and to be the kind of friend worth having.
“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: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
More Verses for Friendship
“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
Proverbs 17:17
“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”
Proverbs 27:17
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
John 15:13
“Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.”
John 15:14-15
“And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:”
Ruth 1:16
“A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”
Proverbs 18:24
“Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.”
1 Samuel 18:3
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.”
Proverbs 27:6
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