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Key Bible Verses about Friendship
Important passages about friendship, each shown in full in your chosen Bible version with its setting and meaning.
16Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. 17Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.” Where you go, I will go
Ruth, a widow from Moab, refuses to leave her widowed mother-in-law Naomi and commits herself to Naomi's people and God. The vow is often read at weddings, but in the…
See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! How good it is to live together in unity
A short song of ascents by David celebrating the goodness of unity among God's people.
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity. A friend loves at all times
A true friend's love does not depend on circumstances, and a brother is born for times of trouble.
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance. Iron sharpens iron
Friends make each other better, as iron sharpens iron.
9Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 10For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up. Two are better than one
The Teacher observes that companions help each other up when one falls, while a person alone has no one to help.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. Greater love has no one than this
Jesus describes the greatest love: laying down one's life for one's friends, which he is about to do.
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Carry one another's burdens
Believers are to help each other bear their burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
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