Bible Verses About Helping Friends
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for helping friends, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,577 votes, led by 1 John 3:17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Helping Friends
1 John 3:17176 votes
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Ecclesiastes 4:10116 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.
Acts 20:35111 votes
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Proverbs 19:17109 votes
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
John 15:13101 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
1 Thessalonians 5:1193 votes
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Proverbs 17:1792 votes
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Galatians 6:290 votes
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:3389 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Proverbs 16:2886 votes
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 27:1786 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Proverbs 18:2484 votes
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 17:980 votes
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Proverbs 27:975 votes
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
Proverbs 22:24-2572 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Luke 12:33-3470 votes
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
John 15:1270 votes
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Deuteronomy 15:7-1168 votes
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
Proverbs 13:2068 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 22:968 votes
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
2 Corinthians 1:3-468 votes
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
Proverbs 12:2667 votes
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
James 4:465 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.
Job 6:1464 votes
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Ecclesiastes 4:964 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
What does the Bible say about helping friends?
Readers most often cite 1 John 3:17 on the subject of helping friends. Across 5,577 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ecclesiastes 4:10, Acts 20:35, Proverbs 19:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.