Bible Verses About Friendship

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 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.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. 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.

When he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”