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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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Luke 11:8
“I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.”
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Luke 12:4
““I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.”
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Luke 14:10
“But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.”
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Luke 14:12
“He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.”
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Luke 15:6
“When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’”
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Luke 15:9
“When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’”
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Luke 15:29
“But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.”
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Luke 16:9
“I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.”
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Luke 21:16
“You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.”
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Luke 23:12
“Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.”
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John 3:29
“He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.”
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John 11:11
“He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.””
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John 15:14
“You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.”
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John 15:15
“No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.”
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John 19:12
“At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!””
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Acts 10:24
“On the next day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and his near friends.”
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Acts 12:20
“Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.”
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Acts 19:31
“Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.”
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Acts 24:23
“He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.”
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Acts 27:3
“The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.”
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