The Best Bible Verses about Friendship
1. Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away. (Proverbs 27:10 - NIV)
2. One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. (Proverbs 18:24 - NIV)
3. A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. (Proverbs 17:17 - NIV)
4. A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends. (Proverbs 16:28 - NIV)
5. Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm. (Proverbs 13:20 - NIV)
6. The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray. (Proverbs 12:26 - NIV)
7. Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice. (Proverbs 27:9 - NIV)
8. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them. (Matthew 18:20 - NIV)
9. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. (John 15:15 - NIV)
10. After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. (Job 42:10 - NIV)
11. Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty. (Job 6:14 - NIV)
12. When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. (Job 2:11 - NIV)
13. Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. (James 4:11 - NIV)
14. Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 - NIV)
15. Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. (1 Thessalonians 5:11 - NIV)
16. And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself. Jonathan took off the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with his tunic, and even his sword, his bow and his belt. (1 Samuel 18:3-4 - NIV)
