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Want to know what the Bible says about Friends? Here are 60 Bible verses about Friends from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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2 Kings 2:2 NIV
Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here; the Lord has sent me to Bethel.”
But Elisha said, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
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Job 6:14 NIV
“Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend
    forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
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1 Thessalonians 5:11 NIV
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
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1 John 4:7 NIV
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
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Proverbs 20:6 NIV
Many claim to have unfailing love,
    but a faithful person who can find?
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John 15:14-15 NIV
14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
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Proverbs 27:10 NIV
Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family,
    and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you—
    better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
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Romans 5:10 NIV
For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
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Matthew 18:20 NIV
For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
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Proverbs 24:5 NIV
The wise prevail through great power,
    and those who have knowledge muster their strength.
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