Bible quotes about friendship
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. – Proverbs 17:17
Do not be misled: ‘Bad company corrupts good character.’ – 1 Corinthians 15:33
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. – John 15:13
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. – Proverbs 17:22
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. – Ecclesiastes 4:9
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. – Proverbs 27:17
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel. – Proverbs 27:9
A man who has friends must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. – Proverbs 18:24
A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need. – Proverbs 17:17
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice. – Proverbs 27:9
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. – Proverbs 27:10
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. – Proverbs 17:17
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. – Proverbs 18:24
Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered. – Proverbs 22:24
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet. – Proverbs 29:5
Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses. – Proverbs 27:6
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. – Proverbs 18:24
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go. – Proverbs 22:24
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. – Proverbs 17:17
One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. – Proverbs 18:24
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. – Proverbs 17:17
But Ruth replied, ‘Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.’ – Ruth 1:16
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice. – Proverbs 27:9
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. – Proverbs 27:17
A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need. – Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. – Proverbs 17:17
Closer than a brother, you are my lifelong friend. – Unknown
Make new friends but keep the old; one is silver and the other gold. – Unknown
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Without a friend, the world is a wilderness. – Francis Bacon
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. – Elbert Hubbard
It’s not what we have, but who we have in our lives that matters. – Unknown
The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. – Muhammad Ali
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’ – C.S. Lewis
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. – Woodrow Wilson
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. – Hubert H. Humphrey
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. – George Eliot
A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, never judging, always supporting. – Unknown
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. – A.A. Milne
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. – Epicurus
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. – Jean de La Fontaine
Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantor of peace. – Buddha
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. – C.S. Lewis
A true friend is someone who is always there for you, through the good and the bad, without judgment. – Unknown
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. – Alexander Dumas
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? – Eugene Kennedy
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. – Khalil Gibran
There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. – Jane Austen
A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be somewhere else. – Len Wein.