42 Bible Verses about Friendship And Love

No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is there for times of trouble.

Wounds from someone who loves are trustworthy, but kisses from an enemy speak volumes.

You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

I am in distress for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been most kind to me. Your love for me was extraordinary beyond love from women.

Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.

An open rebuke is better than unspoken love.

A man with many friends can still be ruined, but a true friend sticks closer than a brother.

Wealth brings many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

Anyone who overlooks an offense promotes love, but someone who gossips separates close friends.

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

but it is you a man whom I treated as my equal my personal confidant, my close friend!

For the sake of my relatives and friends I will now say, "May there be peace within you."

Whoever loves purity and gracious speech will gain the king as his friend.

Many claim "I'm a loyal person!" but who can find someone who truly is?

My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me.

The intimate counsel of the LORD is for those who fear him so they may know his covenant.

Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

I love those who love me, and those who seek me will find me.

Ointments and perfume encourage the heart; in a similar way, a friend's advice is sweet to the soul.

And so the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." And so he was called God's friend.

Don't trust your friends, don't confide in a companion, watch what you say to your wife.

Then he told them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, "Friend, let me borrow three loaves of bread.

The poor person is shunned by his neighbor, but many are the friends of the wealthy.

The righteous person is cautious with respect to his neighbor, but the lifestyle of the wicked leads them astray.

Not only that, but we also continue to boast about God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah, through whom we have now been reconciled.

Many curry favor of an official; everyone is a friend of the gift giver.

Then the LORD told me: "Go love your wife again, even though she is being loved by another and is committing adultery. Love her the same way the LORD loves the people of Israel, even though they look to other gods and love raisin cakes."

Never abandon your friend nor your father's friend, and don't go to your brother's house in times of trouble. A neighbor who is near is better than a brother who lives far away.

So the sisters sent word to Jesus and told him, "Lord, the one whom you love is ill."

So then, encourage one another and build each other up, as you are doing.

"Beware of your neighbors, and don't trust any of your relatives. For all of your relatives act deceitfully, and every friend goes around as a slanderer.

They devise evil against me instead of good, and hatred in place of my love.

For I have received considerable joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed, brother, through you.

Finally, brothers, goodbye. Keep on growing to maturity. Keep listening to my appeals. Continue agreeing with each other and living in peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.

my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me.

"But as for you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I've chosen, the offspring of my friend Abraham

I tell you, even though that man doesn't want to get up and give him anything because he is his friend, he will get up and give him whatever he needs because of his persistence.

Greet one another with a loving kiss. Peace be to all of you who are in the Messiah!

I charge you, young women of Jerusalem, "If you find my beloved, what are you to tell him? Tell him that I'm weak with love."

that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.