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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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Jeremiah 38:22
“‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.””
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Lamentations 1:2
“She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.”
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Hosea 2:14
““Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.”
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Hosea 3:1
“Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.””
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Obadiah 1:7
“All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.””
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Micah 7:5
“Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!”
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Zechariah 13:6
“One will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’”
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Matthew 5:47
“If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?”
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Matthew 9:15
“Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.”
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Matthew 11:19
“The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.””
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Matthew 20:13
““But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?”
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Matthew 22:12
“and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.”
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Matthew 26:50
“Jesus said to him, “Friend, why are you here?” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.”
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Mark 3:21
“When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, “He is insane.””
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Mark 5:19
“He didn’t allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.””
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Luke 5:34
“He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?”
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Luke 7:6
“Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.”
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Luke 7:34
“The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’”
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Luke 11:5
“He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,”
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Luke 11:6
“for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’”
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