23 Bible Verses about Being A Friend

He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to you.

A righteous man is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked causes them to err.

Walk with wise men, and thou shall be wise. But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man, lest thou learn this ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

Greater love has no man than this, that some man lay down his life for his friends.

This is my commandment, that ye love each other, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this, that some man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do as many things as I command you.read more.
I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to you.

Be not led astray. Evil associations corrupt good habits.

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to 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 no more let him go home to his father's house. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates chief friends.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Let not one man seek that of himself, but each man that of the other.

Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded.

Where there is no counsel, plans are disappointed, but in the multitude of counselors they are established.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

A new commandment I give to you, that ye should love each other, just as I loved you, so that ye also should love each other. By this all men will know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love among each other.

And the scripture was fulfilled, which says, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness, and he was called a friend of God.

Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so [too] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

And above all having fervent love for yourselves, because love will cover a multitude of sins,