The friendships we form are religiously significant. After all, our friends help shape our character and influence our choices.
Bible verses about friendship can help you choose good friends and keep your friendships strong.
Here are 20 Bible verses about friendship from the King James Version of the Bible.
Proverbs 18:24
”A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”
This passage from Proverbs reminds us that friendships can be closer, more important relationships than family relationships. Friends can accompany us through mortal and spiritual peril, just as Jesus Christ’s disciples accompanied him.
Proverbs 17:17
”A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
This proverb tells us that true friendship involves unconditional love.
While friendship shouldn’t involve unconditional approval of actions, it should involve seeing one another as Jesus Christ sees us.
John 15:13
”Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”