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Bible Verses About Friendship and Love

Bible Verses About Friendship and Love
  • John 15:12-1712 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 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. 16 You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 “I command these things to you, that you may love one another. Related Topics: FriendshipLoveLoving OthersRelationshipsServing Others
  • Proverbs 17:17-1817 A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity. 18 A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor. Related Topics: FriendsFriendshipLoveLoving OthersRelationships
  • Proverbs 18:2424 A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Related Topics: FriendsFriendshipLonelinessLoyaltyRelationships
  • Ecclesiastes 4:9-129 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 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. 11 Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? 12 If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Related Topics: FriendshipLoveLoving OthersMarriageRelationships
  • Proverbs 27:1717 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance. Related Topics: CommunityFellowshipFriendsFriendshipRelationships
  • Proverbs 27:5-65 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 6 The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse. Related Topics: Bad FriendsBetrayalEnemiesForgiveness in MarriageRelationships
  • 1 Samuel 18:1-51 When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 2 Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more. 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 4 Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David with his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash. 5 David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants. Related Topics: FriendsFriendshipLoyaltyRelationships
  • Colossians 3:12-1412 Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; 13 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. 14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection. Related Topics: ForgivenessHumilityKindnessLovePatience
  • Proverbs 17:99 He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends. Related Topics: ForgivenessForgiveness of SinsFriendsFriendshipGossip
  • James 2:2323 So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God. Related Topics: FriendsFriendship
  • Proverbs 27:1010 Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.
  • Proverbs 13:2020 One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm. Related Topics: FriendsFriendshipGraduationRelationshipsSchool
  • James 4:44 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Related Topics: Bad FriendsCommitmentEnemiesFriendsFriendship
  • Proverbs 16:2828 A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends. Related Topics: ArguingFriendsFriendshipGossip
  • Proverbs 27:99 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
  • Romans 12:10-1110 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another, 11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, Related Topics: AttitudeFamily UnityHusbandsLazinessLoving Yourself
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:1111 Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do. Related Topics: Caring for OthersCommunicationDiscouragementLove and RelationshipsRelationships
  • Galatians 6:1-21 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Related Topics: FriendshipHelping OthersJudging OthersKindnessRelationships
  • 1 Corinthians 15:3333 Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.” Related Topics: AddictionFriendshipGamblingRelationshipsTemptation
  • Job 16:20-2120 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God, 21 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor! Related Topics: FriendsFriendship
  • 1 Peter 4:8-108 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. 10 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. Related Topics: FriendshipGod's LoveMarriageMother's DayMothers
  • Luke 6:31-3531 “As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them. 32 “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34 If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much. 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. Related Topics: GossipGraceLeadershipLoveMoney
  • Exodus 33:7-117 Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” Everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp. 8 When Moses went out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent. 9 When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and Yahweh spoke with Moses. 10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door. 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent. Related Topics: CommunicationCommunionFriendsFriendshipWorship
  • Proverbs 22:24-2724 Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man. Don’t associate with one who harbors anger, 25 lest you learn his ways and ensnare your soul. 26 Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts. 27 If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you? Related Topics: AngerDatingDebtFriendsFriendship
  • Luke 11:5-85 He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, 6 for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’ 7 and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’? 8 I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs. Related Topics: FriendsFriendship
  • Ruth 1:16-1816 Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. 17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.” 18 When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her. Related Topics: FriendsFriendshipMother's DayMothersYouth
  • Psalm 133:11 A Song of Ascents. By David. See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! Related Topics: CommunityFamilyFriendsFriendshipUnity
  • Job 6:1414 “To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. Related Topics: Compassion
  • 2 Samuel 15:32-3732 When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn and earth on his head. 33 David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me; 34 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’ 35 Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. 36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.” 37 So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
  • Hebrews 10:24-2524 Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. Related Topics: CommunityFriendshipMotivationNew YearServing
  • Isaiah 41:88 “But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend, Related Topics: FriendsFriendship
  • Proverbs 12:2626 A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray. Related Topics: Bad FriendsTemptation
  • 2 Timothy 1:2-42 to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day 4 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
  • John 3:16-1716 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. Related Topics: AngerAnxietyDeathFaithSuicide
  • Romans 1:11-1211 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established; 12 that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine. Related Topics: DiscouragementEncouragementEncouraging OthersFellowshipSpiritual Gifts
  • Psalm 55:12-1412 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him. 13 But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend. 14 We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company. Related Topics: Bad FriendsFellowshipFriendsFriendship
  • 1 John 4:16-2116 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. 17 In this, love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. 19 We love him, because he first loved us. 20 If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother. Related Topics: AnxietyFamilyGod's LoveLove
  • 2 Chronicles 20:77 Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever? Related Topics: Friendship
  • 1 John 3:16-1916 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him? 18 My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him, Related Topics: GivingHelping OthersLoveRelationshipsTithing
  • 2 Samuel 1:2626 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, surpassing the love of women. Related Topics: Friendship
  • 1 John 4:77 Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Related Topics: CommitmentLoving Your Enemies
  • Matthew 18:15-2015 “If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. 16 But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector. 18 Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven. 19 Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.” Related Topics: FriendshipGossipJudging OthersRelationshipsUnity
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