Relationships and family
What does the Bible say about friendship?
Scripture praises friends who stay close in trouble, tell the truth, and sharpen one another like iron sharpening iron.
What Scripture says
Proverbs 17:17
“A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.”
Proverbs 27:17
“Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.”
John 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
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Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. See all Bible questions or verses by topic.