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Bible verses about friendship

Some of the Bible's most moving lines are between friends, not lovers.

Passages worth sitting with

5 passages
Ruth 1:16–17

But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”

"Where You Go I Will Go"

Proverbs 17:17

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

"A Friend Loves at All Times"

Proverbs 18:24

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

"A Friend Who Sticks Closer Than a Brother"

John 15:12–17

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. This is My command to you: Love one another.

"Greater Love Has No One Than This"

Ecclesiastes 4:9–12

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up! Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone? And though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Two Are Better Than One

David and Jonathan's Covenant Friendship

1 Samuel 18–20

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