Bible Verses about “making friends”
The Bible contains 29 verses about making friends 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.”
“bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.”
“In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;”
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.”
“"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”
“Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;”
“Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.”
“Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.”
“"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.”
“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.”
“You are my friends, if you do whatever I command 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.”
“Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.”
“It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.”
“A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.”
“Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.”
“Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.”