Bible Verses About Choosing Friends
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for choosing friends, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 137,787 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 15:33. Each passage links into the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Choosing Friends
1 Corinthians 15:336,287 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Proverbs 18:245,422 votes
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 13:205,266 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 27:175,096 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Proverbs 17:174,947 votes
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 12:264,545 votes
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Proverbs 22:24-254,213 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Ecclesiastes 4:9-103,150 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Proverbs 16:283,115 votes
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 27:93,092 votes
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
John 15:132,576 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
1 Thessalonians 5:112,524 votes
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Proverbs 17:92,519 votes
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Proverbs 27:62,244 votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
James 4:42,050 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.
Proverbs 11:141,981 votes
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 27:5-61,902 votes
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Proverbs 19:201,845 votes
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Proverbs 24:51,822 votes
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
Proverbs 27:51,765 votes
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Job 2:111,757 votes
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Ecclesiastes 4:91,745 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Proverbs 27:101,695 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.
John 15:151,602 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.
Luke 6:311,580 votes
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.