16 Bible Verses about Friendship And Love

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.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

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.

and the scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness", and he was called the friend of God.

And he said to them, "Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves;

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

So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is sick."

Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

I tell you, though he will not get up and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as much as he needs.

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

that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith.