Bible Verses About Family and Friends
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for family and friends, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 10,202 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 Family and Friends
Proverbs 18:24450 votes
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 17:17371 votes
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
John 15:12-13320 votes
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Psalms 133:1296 votes
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
1 Timothy 5:8271 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
John 15:12-19255 votes
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Galatians 6:10211 votes
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Romans 12:10208 votes
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Matthew 12:48-50193 votes
But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
Psalms 127:3-5188 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Proverbs 27:10169 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.
Proverbs 27:17168 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Proverbs 22:6161 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Exodus 20:12159 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Joshua 24:15146 votes
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Psalms 34:3143 votes
O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
1 Corinthians 13:4-13139 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Proverbs 27:6138 votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs 12:26127 votes
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Ephesians 6:4125 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Proverbs 4:6124 votes
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Proverbs 16:28122 votes
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
1 Corinthians 15:33121 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1 Timothy 3:5118 votes
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Psalms 23:1-6114 votes
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
What does the Bible say about family and friends?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 18:24 on the subject of family and friends. Across 10,202 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 17:17, John 15:12-13, Psalms 133:1. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.