What scripture says
Bible verses about friendship
Scripture prizes friendship: a friend loves at all times, and there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Jesus called his disciples friends. These passages speak of loyalty, honest counsel and laying down one's life for another.
A friend loveth at all times
Proverbs 17:17
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Read it in its chapter →A friend that sticketh closer than a brother
Proverbs 18:24
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Read it in its chapter →I have called you friends
John 15:13-15
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. 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.
Read it in its chapter →Iron sharpeneth iron
Proverbs 27:17
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Read it in its chapter →Two are better than one
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.
Read it in its chapter →David and Jonathan
1 Samuel 18:1-3
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. And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
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Hymns to sing
- Alleluia, Sing To Jesus!William Chatterton Dix (1837–1865)
- Blest Be The Tie That BindsJohn Fawcett (1740–1817)
- For The Beauty Of The EarthFolliot Sandford Pierpoint (1835–1917)
- I Know That My Redeemer LivesSamuel Medley (1738–1799)
- Jesus Is All the World To MeWill Lamartine Thompson (1847–1909)
- Jesus Sinners Doth ReceiveErdmann Neumeister (1671–1756)