Bible verses about "friendship" | JPS_ASV_Byz

²⁴ Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; and with a wrathful man thou shalt not go; ²⁵ Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. ²⁶ Be thou not of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts; ²⁷ If thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

⁹ He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that harpeth on a matter estrangeth a familiar friend.

¹² This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.

¹² that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.

⁸ and above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves, for love shall cover a multitude of sins: ⁹ using hospitality one to another without murmurings: ¹⁰ according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God,

²⁴ and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works, ²⁵ not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

¹⁴ To him that is ready to faint kindness is due from his friend, even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are importunate.

³³ Be not deceived; Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

¹⁷ Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

¹⁷ A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

¹¹ Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

⁹ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. ¹⁰ For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up. ¹¹ Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone? ¹² And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

²⁴ There are friends that one hath to his own hurt; but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.