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Bible Verses About Friendship
Bible verses about friendship — loyalty, encouragement, walking together.
16 verses · curated by hand
Ruth 1:16
"Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God."
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In chapterProverbs 17:17
"A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity."
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In chapterProverbs 27:17
"Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance."
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In chapterMatthew 7:12
"Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets."
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In chapterJohn 15:13
"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends."
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In chapterEcclesiastes 4:9
"Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor."
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In chapterGenesis 2:18
"Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”"
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In chapterProverbs 18:24
"A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."
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In chapterEcclesiastes 4:10
"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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In chapterGalatians 6:2
"Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."
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In chapterEphesians 4:29
"Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear."
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In chapter1 Thessalonians 5:11
"Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do."
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In chapterHebrews 10:24
"Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,"
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In chapterHebrews 10:25
"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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In chapterFrom the wider Bible
More verses about friendship in Scripture
125 passages mentioning “friend” across WEB & KJV — beyond the curated set above.
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2 Chronicles 20:7
“Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?”
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Esther 5:10
“Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.”
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Esther 5:14
“Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.”
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Esther 6:13
“Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.””
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Esther 16:5
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Esther 16:14
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Job 2:11
“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.”
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Job 6:14
““To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.”
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Job 6:27
“Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.”
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Job 16:20
“My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,”
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Job 16:21
“that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!”
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Job 17:5
“He who denounces his friends for plunder, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.”
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Job 19:14
“My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.”
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Job 19:19
“All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.”
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Job 19:21
““Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.”
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Job 29:4
“as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,”
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Job 32:3
“Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.”
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Job 42:7
“It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
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Job 42:10
“Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.”
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Psalms 15:3
“He who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;”
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