Proverbs 17:17
17 A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Bible Verses About Friendship
A faithful friend is one of the rarest treasures Scripture names. The Bible prizes the friend who loves at all times, who sharpens as iron sharpens iron, and who sticks closer than a brother — and it warns plainly about companions who pull a soul downward. These passages describe friendship as God designed it, with Jesus Himself as the pattern.
Proverbs 18:24
24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
John 15:13–15
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. 15 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.
Ecclesiastes 4:9–12
9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 10 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. 11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? 12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Proverbs 27:17
17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Proverbs 27:9–10
9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. by...: Heb. from the counsel of the soul 10 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 Samuel 18:1–3
1 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. 2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel 23:16
16 And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
Proverbs 13:20
20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. destroyed: Heb. broken
Proverbs 22:24–25
24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: 25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
1 Corinthians 15:33
33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Ruth 1:16–17
16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Intreat...: or, Be not against me 17 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.
Job 2:11–13
11 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. 12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. 13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Proverbs 16:28
28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. soweth: Heb. sendeth forth
James 4:4
4 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.