37 encouraging Bible verses on friendship, love and forgiveness

Bible verses on friendship

We needs friends. They make our lives meaningful. But what is a true friend and can you be in real fellowship with God? Let us look at some Bible quotes on the topic to see that. God bless you.

1. Exodus 33:11
„The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.“
2. 2 Chronicles 20:7
„Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?“
3. Ezra 9:12
„Therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them at any time, that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and leave it to your children as an everlasting inheritance.“
4. Job 6:14
“Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.“
5. Job 17:5
„If anyone denounces their friends for reward, the eyes of their children will fail.“
6. Job 19:14
„My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.“
7. Job 29:4
„Oh, for the days when I was in my prime, when God’s intimate friendship blessed my house...“
8. Job 42:10
„After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.“
9. Psalm 38:11
„My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away.“
10. Psalm 109:5
„They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.“
11. Psalm 119:63
„I am a friend to all who fear you, to all who follow your precepts.“
12. Proverbs 12:26
„The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.“
13. Proverbs 14:20
„The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.“
14. Proverbs 16:28
„A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.“
15. Proverbs 17:9
„Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.“
16. Proverbs 17:17
„A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.“
17. Proverbs 18:24
„One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.“
18. Proverbs 19:4
„Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.“
19. Proverbs 19:6
„Many curry favor with a ruler, and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.“
20. Proverbs 19:7
„The poor are shunned by all their relatives— how much more do their friends avoid them! Though the poor pursue them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found.“
21. Proverbs 22:11
„One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend.“
22. Proverbs 27:6
„Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.“
23. Proverbs 27:9
„Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice.“
24. Proverbs 27:10
„Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you— better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.“
25. Jeremiah 9:4
“Beware of your friends; do not trust anyone in your clan. For every one of them is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer.“
26. Jeremiah 9:5
„Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.“
27. Micah 7:5
„Do not trust a neighbor; put no confidence in a friend. Even with the woman who lies in your embrace guard the words of your lips.“
28. Luke 7:34
„The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.“
29. Luke 11:8
„I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.“
30. Luke 12:4
“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.“
31. Luke 16:9
„I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.“
32. Luke 23:12
„That day Herod and Pilate became friends—before this they had been enemies.“
33. John 15:13
„Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.“
34. John 15:14
„You are my friends if you do what I command.“
35. John 15:15
„I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.“
36. James 2:23
„And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.“
37. James 4:4
„You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.“


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