A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:17
Bible Verses About Friendship
The Bible describes friendship as loyalty that holds when it is hardest. A true friend loves at all times, carries the other's burden, and tells the truth with care. These verses show friendship as a gift that sustains a life.
Verses on friendship
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. Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.
Proverbs 27:17
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.
Proverbs 27:9
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. Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel 18:1-3
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
Proverbs 27:6
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
Romans 12:10
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.
John 15:15
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Proverbs 13:20
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2
Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; 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. Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
Colossians 3:12-14