Bible Verses About Friendships
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for friendships, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,503 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 Friendships
Proverbs 18:24107 votes
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 27:1789 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Proverbs 17:1785 votes
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-1280 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Proverbs 27:975 votes
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
John 15:1358 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Job 6:1453 votes
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Proverbs 22:24-2547 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
1 Corinthians 15:3347 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Proverbs 27:645 votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs 12:2640 votes
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Proverbs 17:938 votes
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Proverbs 13:2033 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
James 4:429 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 16:2828 votes
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-1027 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Luke 6:3124 votes
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Proverbs 27:1023 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.
1 Thessalonians 5:1123 votes
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
John 15:1521 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.
Ruth 1:1720 votes
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Proverbs 27:5-619 votes
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
1 Samuel 18:1-318 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.
Job 2:1118 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.
John 15:12-1518 votes
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
What does the Bible say about friendships?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 18:24 on the subject of friendships. Across 1,503 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 27:17, Proverbs 17:17, Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.