42 Bible Verses about Friendship And Love

No one has greater love than this -- that one lays down his life for his friends.

A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.

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

I grieve over you, my brother Jonathan! You were very dear to me. Your love was more special to me than the love of women.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

A person who has friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Wealth adds many friends, but a poor person is separated from his friend.

The one who forgives an offense seeks love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

But it is you, a man like me, my close friend in whom I confided.

For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors I will say, "May there be peace in you!"

The one who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious -- the king will be his friend.

Many people profess their loyalty, but a faithful person -- who can find?

All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.

The Lord's loyal followers receive his guidance, and he reveals his covenantal demands to them.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

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

Ointment and incense make the heart rejoice, likewise the sweetness of one's friend from sincere counsel.

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness," and he was called God's friend.

Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Don't even share secrets with the one who lies in your arms!

Then he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

A poor person is disliked even by his neighbors, but those who love the rich are many.

The righteous person is cautious in his friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

Many people entreat the favor of a generous person, and everyone is the friend of the person who gives gifts.

The Lord said to me, "Go, show love to your wife again, even though she loves another man and continually commits adultery. Likewise, the Lord loves the Israelites although they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols."

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not enter your brother's house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.

So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, "Lord, look, the one you love is sick."

Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as you are in fact doing.

Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him.

They repay me evil for good, and hate for love.

I have had great joy and encouragement because of your love, for the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, set things right, be encouraged, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.

"You, my servant Israel, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend,

I tell you, even though the man inside will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of the first man's sheer persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs.

Greet one another with a loving kiss. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

The Beloved to the Maidens: O maidens of Jerusalem, I command you -- If you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him that I am lovesick!

that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another's faith, both yours and mine.