What The Bible Says About Friendship

Here are a few encouraging verses on Friendship:

“The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.”  (Proverbs 12:26)

“A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.”  (Proverbs 16:28)

“Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.”  (Proverbs 17:9)

“Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.”  (Proverbs 19:4)

“The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.”  (Proverbs 14:20)

“One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother”  (Proverbs 18:24)

“Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.”  (Proverbs 22:24-25)

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”  (John 15:3)

Jesus said:  “You are my friends if you do what I command.”  (John 15:14)

Jesus said: “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.”  (John 15:15)

“You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.”  (James 4:4)

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.  Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”  (1 John 4:7)