What the Scriptures say about Friendship
(Proverbs 20:6) Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?
(Proverbs 27:9) Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
(Proverbs 17:9) He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.
(Proverbs 27:17) Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.
(Proverbs 14:7) Go away from the foolish man, for you will not see the lips of knowledge.
(Proverbs 13:20) Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
(Proverbs 17:17) A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.
(Proverbs 22:24-25) Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man: For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.
(Job 2:11) And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.
(Proverbs 19:20) Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.
(Ruth 1:16-17) But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God. Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.
(Proverbs 16:28) A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.
(Romans 12:2) And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
(Proverbs 27:5-6) Better is open protest than love kept secret. The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.
(Romans 12:10) Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;
(Proverbs 22:11) He whose heart is clean is dear to the Lord; for the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.
(Psalms 109:4) For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.
(Luke 6:31) Do to others as you would have them do to you.
(Philemon 1:17) If then you take me to be your friend and brother, take him in as myself.
(Ephesians 4:29) Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
(John 15:12-15) This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you. Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do. No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.
(James 2:23) And the holy Writings were put into effect which said, And Abraham had faith in God and it was put to his account as righteousness; and he was named the friend of God.
(Proverbs 18:24) There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.
(Proverbs 12:26) The upright man is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of evil-doers is a cause of error to them.
(I Corinthians 15:33) Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
