20 Bible Verses About Friendship (KJV)
"A friend loveth at all times." Scripture treats friendship as serious business — sharpening, wounding faithfully, sticking closer than a brother — and crowns it with Jesus' own words: "I have called you friends." These twenty verses map what true friendship looks like.
“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”Proverbs 17:17 (KJV)
“A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”Proverbs 18:24 (KJV)
“Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.”Proverbs 27:9 (KJV)
“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”Proverbs 27:17 (KJV)
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.”Proverbs 27:6 (KJV)
“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”Proverbs 13:20 (KJV)
“Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:”Proverbs 22:24 (KJV)
“A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.”Proverbs 16:28 (KJV)
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”John 15:13 (KJV)
“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 15:15 (KJV)
“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.”Ecclesiastes 4:9 (KJV)
“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 4:10 (KJV)
“And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.”1 Samuel 18:1 (KJV)
“And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.”James 2:23 (KJV)
“Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.”1 Thessalonians 5:11 (KJV)
“And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:”Hebrews 10:24 (KJV)
“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”Hebrews 10:25 (KJV)
“Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;”Romans 12:10 (KJV)
“Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”Galatians 6:2 (KJV)
“And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.”1 Peter 4:8 (KJV)
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