16 Bible Verses about Friendship And Love

No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

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

Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God.

You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

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

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the Father.

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And Abraham believed God, and his faith was placed to his credit as righteousness," and he received the name of 'God's friend.'

And He said to them, "Which of you shall have a friend and shall go to him in the middle of the night and say, "'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread;

And not only so, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now obtained that reconciliation.

So the sisters sent to Him to say, "Master, he whom you hold dear is ill."

Therefore encourage one another, and let each one help to strengthen his friend, as in fact you do.

For I have found great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of God's people have been, and are, refreshed through you, my brother.

Finally, brethren, be joyful, secure perfection of character, take courage, be of one mind, live in peace. And then God who gives love and peace will be with you.

"I tell you that even if he will not rise and give him the loaves because he is his friend, at any rate because of his persistency he will rouse himself and give him as many as he requires.

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

in other words that while I am among you we may be mutually encouraged by one another's faith, yours and mine.