Bible Verses about Friendship:
What does the Bible say about Friendship? How
are we to choose our friends? How should friends treat one another? All of
these are good questions and the Bible has some good Scriptures to study to
answer them. I am sure you came to this article looking for some great Bible Verses so
I will leave you to them and let them do the speaking on the important subject
of friendship.
Jesus
on Friendship
John 15:12-15 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I
have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his
life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No
longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is
doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father
I have made known to you.
Greatest
Friend is God
James 4:8 Draw
near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and
purify your hearts, you double-minded.
How
To Pick Your Friends
Proverbs 12:26 One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the
way of the wicked leads them astray.
Proverbs 13:20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the
companion of fools will suffer harm.
Proverbs 14:6-7 A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is
easy for a man of understanding. Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do
not meet words of knowledge.
Proverbs 22:24-25 Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with
a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good
morals.”
How
To Treat Your Friends
Luke 6:31 And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to
them.
Romans 12:10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Out do one
another in showing honor.
Ephesians 4:29-32 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only
such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace
to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were
sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and
clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one
another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Colossians 3:12-14 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved,
compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with
one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other;
as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put
on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Importance
of Friendships
Proverbs 11:14 Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an
abundance of counselors there is safety.
Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for
adversity.
Proverbs 19:20 Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may
gain wisdom in the future.
Proverbs 24:5 A wise man is full of strength, and a man of
knowledge enhances his might,
Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Bible
Examples of Friendship
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Ruth and Naomi
Ruth 1:16-17 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return
from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will
lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I
will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if
anything but death parts me from you.”
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David and Jonathan
1 Samuel 18:1-3 As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the
soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his
own soul. And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his
father’s house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him
as his own soul.
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Job’s Friends
Job 2:11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that
had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite,
Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment
together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
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Elijah and Elisha
2 Kings 2:2 And
Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me as far as
Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will
not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
by JOSH WILEY ·
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