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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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Psalms 25:14
“The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.”
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Psalms 35:14
“I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.”
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Psalms 38:11
“My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.”
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Psalms 41:9
“Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.”
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Psalms 55:13
“But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.”
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Psalms 55:20
“He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.”
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Psalms 88:8
“You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.”
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Psalms 88:18
“You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.”
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Psalms 119:63
“I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.”
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Proverbs 2:17
“who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:”
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Proverbs 3:32
“For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.”
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Proverbs 6:1
“My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;”
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Proverbs 6:3
“Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.”
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Proverbs 12:26
“A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.”
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Proverbs 14:20
“The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.”
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Proverbs 16:28
“A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.”
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Proverbs 17:9
“He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.”
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Proverbs 17:18
“A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.”
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Proverbs 18:1
“An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.”
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Proverbs 19:4
“Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.”
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