Bible Verses About friendship

Scripture answer

Scripture treats friendship as sacred — a means of grace that sharpens, comforts, and challenges us.

Start with Proverbs 17:17, Proverbs 27:17, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10; read each passage in its chapter.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

Two are better than one... If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up.

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice.