Friendship · KJV
Bible Verses About Friendship
7 key scriptures
A friend loveth at all times. These verses honour true friendship — loyal, sharpening, and willing to lay down its life for another.
Proverbs 17:17 →
“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
Proverbs 18:24 →
“A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”
Proverbs 27:17 →
“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”
John 15:13 →
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 →
“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 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.”
Proverbs 27:9 →
“Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.”
1 Thessalonians 5:11 →
“Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.”
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