43 Bible Verses about Friendships
Want to know what the Bible says about Friendships? Here are 43 Bible verses about Friendships 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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1 Samuel 22:23 NIV
Stay with me; don’t be afraid. The man who wants to kill you is trying to kill me too. You will be safe with me.”
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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.
15
Proverbs 27:19 NIV
As water reflects the face,
so one’s life reflects the heart.
so one’s life reflects the heart.
15
Proverbs 27:5-6 NIV
5 Better is open rebuke
than hidden love.
than hidden love.
6 Wounds from a friend can be trusted,
but an enemy multiplies kisses.
but an enemy multiplies kisses.
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Job 2:11 NIV
When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.
15
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.
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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Psalm 55:12-14 NIV
12 If an enemy were insulting me,
I could endure it;
if a foe were rising against me,
I could hide.
13 But it is you, a man like myself,
my companion, my close friend,
14 with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship
at the house of God,
as we walked about
among the worshipers.
I could endure it;
if a foe were rising against me,
I could hide.
13 But it is you, a man like myself,
my companion, my close friend,
14 with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship
at the house of God,
as we walked about
among the worshipers.
15
John 15:15 NIV
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.
14
John 15:12-15 NIV
12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 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.
14
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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