Bible Verses About Making Friends
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for making friends, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,729 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 Making Friends
Proverbs 18:24541 votes
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 17:17468 votes
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 27:17449 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
1 Corinthians 15:33376 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Proverbs 22:24-25302 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Luke 6:31291 votes
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Proverbs 13:20287 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 12:26262 votes
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10249 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
1 Thessalonians 5:11215 votes
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Proverbs 16:28207 votes
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
John 15:13200 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
James 4:4189 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.
John 15:12-15188 votes
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
1 Samuel 18:1-3178 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.
Romans 12:10155 votes
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Proverbs 27:9154 votes
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
Colossians 3:12-14153 votes
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12137 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Proverbs 27:6136 votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs 27:10126 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 17:9125 votes
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Proverbs 27:5-6125 votes
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Ecclesiastes 4:12106 votes
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Hebrews 10:24-25104 votes
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
What does the Bible say about making friends?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 18:24 on the subject of making friends. Across 8,729 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 17:17, Proverbs 27:17, 1 Corinthians 15:33. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.