Related Verses

• Proverbs 16:28 — A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
• Proverbs 18:24 — A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
• Proverbs 20:6 — Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?
• Proverbs 22:11 — He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king's friend.
• Proverbs 27:5-6 — Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
• Proverbs 27:9 — Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.
• Ecclesiastes 4:9–12 — Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn't have another to lift him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
• John 15:13–15 — Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
• Proverbs 3:32 — For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.
• Romans 5:10 — For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.