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Bible Verses About Friendship
Scripture on true friendship — loyalty, encouragement, and the friends who sharpen and sustain us.
The Bible takes friendship seriously — as a gift, a responsibility, and a means of grace. A good friend, it says, is a rare and steadying treasure.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
We were never meant to fall — or to rise — alone.
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Real friendship is one of God's kindest provisions. To have such a friend is a gift; to be one is a calling.