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18 Bible Verses About Friendship

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Summary

  • Proverbs 17:17 and 18:24 compare a friend with a brother, and 18:24 names a friend who sticks closer than one.
  • Jonathan made a covenant with David and gave him his robe, tunic, sword, bow and belt (1 Samuel 18:3-4).
  • Ruth, a Moabite widow, bound herself to her mother-in-law Naomi’s people, God and burial place, and swore that not even death would separate them.
  • Job’s three friends sat with him in silence for seven days, and God later told Eliphaz that the three had not spoken the truth about him.
  • In John 15:14-15 Jesus calls his disciples friends because he has made known to them what he learned from his Father.

The Bible describes a friend as someone whose loyalty holds in trouble, whose honesty can hurt, and whose company shapes a person’s character. Proverbs has several sayings about friends (Proverbs 17:17; 18:24; 27:6; 27:17). The histories record the friendships of Jonathan and David (1 Samuel 18:1) and of Ruth and Naomi (Ruth 1:16-17), and Jesus calls his disciples his friends in John 15:13-15. What a friend is Proverbs 17:17 “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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