Bible Verses About Friendship

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

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.

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?

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.

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.

But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.