Bible Verses About Best Friends
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for best friends, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 806 votes, led by Proverbs 18:24. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Best Friends
Proverbs 18:2447 votes
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 17:1739 votes
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:931 votes
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Proverbs 27:1728 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Job 6:1425 votes
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Proverbs 16:2825 votes
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Ecclesiastes 4:1025 votes
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Proverbs 12:2624 votes
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Proverbs 22:24-2524 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Proverbs 27:923 votes
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
Ecclesiastes 4:923 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
1 Corinthians 15:3323 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1 Thessalonians 5:1122 votes
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Luke 6:3121 votes
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
1 John 4:720 votes
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Proverbs 13:2019 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 27:1019 votes
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Romans 12:1019 votes
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
James 4:419 votes
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
1 Peter 4:8-1019 votes
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Proverbs 27:5-618 votes
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
John 15:1318 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Psalms 133:117 votes
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
Ecclesiastes 4:9-1016 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
John 15:1516 votes
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
What does the Bible say about best friends?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 18:24 on the subject of best friends. Across 806 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 17:17, Proverbs 17:9, Proverbs 27:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.