The Bible is a guidebook for every aspect of life. The words are powerful and should be used to make decisions. Friendship is no exception as those seeking to find the right friends can be guided by these Bible verses. Besides showing what friends to have, the Bible teaches you about how to treat your friends and what an important friend we have in Jesus. The Bible verses on friendship will be helpful to you today if you read through them slowly and put them into action.
Friends and Friendship Bible Verses
John 15:12-15 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the 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.
Proverbs 13:20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Romans 12:10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Out do one another in showing honor.
Ephesians 4:29-32 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Proverbs 19:20 Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
Christian Friendship Quotes
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. ~Abraham LincolnHe who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson"The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are."
C.S. LewisResources and Other Friendship Articles from around the Web:
Friendship Bible Verses
Bible Advice for Friendship
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