Bible Verses about “being a friend”
The Bible contains 27 verses about being a friend across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."”
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
“As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.”
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.”
“And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.”
“Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.”
“"As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.”
“Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.”
“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.”
“If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
“A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.”
“A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”
“You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
“Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?”
“A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.”
“One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.”
“and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.”
“Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one who harbors anger:”
“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.”
“lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.”
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.”
“Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.”
“He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.”
“Better is open rebuke than hidden love.”
“Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.”
“A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.”
“"To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.”