Bible Verses About Friends and Friendship
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for friends and friendship, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,414 votes, led by Proverbs 17:17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Friends and Friendship
Proverbs 17:17222 votes
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:24217 votes
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 27:17194 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
John 15:13152 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Proverbs 13:20135 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 27:6126 votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
1 Corinthians 15:33126 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Proverbs 12:26118 votes
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Proverbs 16:28114 votes
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 22:24-25102 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Ecclesiastes 4:9-1286 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-1083 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Proverbs 27:5-679 votes
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Proverbs 27:973 votes
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
John 15:12-1573 votes
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
John 15:13-1567 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
1 Samuel 18:1-362 votes
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
John 15:1562 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.
James 4:462 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 Thessalonians 5:1160 votes
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Proverbs 17:959 votes
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
2 Kings 2:252 votes
And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Beth–el. And Elisha said unto him, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth–el.
Job 6:1451 votes
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Job 2:1144 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.
Psalms 41:944 votes
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
What does the Bible say about friends and friendship?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 17:17 on the subject of friends and friendship. Across 4,414 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 18:24, Proverbs 27:17, John 15:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.