Good friendships are worth more than gold and can help us to endure with faith through difficult trials. However, friendships not bonded in faith for God can corrupt our hearts more than we know.
Friendship is truly one of God’s blessings to mankind. With honest and wholesome friends, we can better endure the hardships of life and rejoice in the wonderful moments. However, we must know how to choose friends and how to be a good friend ourselves. Thankfully, we can look to the Bible for guidance on friendship.
Bible Verses about Friendship
(Proverbs 18:24-25)
One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
(Proverbs 27:17)
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
(Proverbs 17:17)
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
(1 Thessalonians 5:11)
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
Bible Verses about Love in Friendships
(1 John 4:8)
“Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
(1 John 4:7)
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.”
(John 15:12)
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
(Matthew 22:37-39)
“And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Bible Verses about Friendship with God
(1 John 3:1)
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”
(Galatians 2:20)
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
(1 John 4:7)
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
(Proverbs 22:11)
One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend.
