Bible Verses About True Friends
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for true friends, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,956 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 True Friends
Proverbs 18:24318 votes
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
John 15:13183 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Proverbs 27:5-6158 votes
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Proverbs 16:28133 votes
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 17:17126 votes
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
John 15:12-1799 votes
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Proverbs 27:17-2772 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
1 John 4:170 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Proverbs 20:662 votes
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
Romans 12:260 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Proverbs 11:1445 votes
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Philippians 1:744 votes
Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
John 14:638 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
James 4:433 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 Corinthians 15:3332 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Proverbs 15:2230 votes
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
John 3:1630 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 Corinthians 14:3326 votes
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Proverbs 27:1725 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Psalms 20:1-924 votes
The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
Proverbs 27:623 votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Psalms 33:1-2221 votes
Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
Proverbs 19:421 votes
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Philippians 4:1321 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Hebrews 12:120 votes
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
What does the Bible say about true friends?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 18:24 on the subject of true friends. Across 1,956 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including John 15:13, Proverbs 27:5-6, Proverbs 16:28. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.