Bible Verses About Good Friends
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for good friends, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,262 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 Good Friends
Proverbs 18:24129 votes
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 13:20101 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 17:1777 votes
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
1 John 4:840 votes
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Hebrews 10:2535 votes
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Proverbs 16:2833 votes
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 17:931 votes
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Proverbs 27:1731 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
1 Corinthians 15:3331 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Philippians 4:831 votes
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
1 John 1:730 votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Job 6:1428 votes
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
John 15:1327 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:1526 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.
1 John 4:7-926 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 22:24-2523 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
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.
Ecclesiastes 4:923 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
James 4:423 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.
Psalms 133:122 votes
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
Proverbs 27:922 votes
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
Ecclesiastes 4:1021 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.
1 Corinthians 13:121 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Thessalonians 5:1121 votes
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
1 Corinthians 13:1-1319 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
What does the Bible say about good friends?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 18:24 on the subject of good friends. Across 1,262 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 13:20, Proverbs 17:17, 1 John 4:8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.