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12 Bible verses about Friendship KJV
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Proverbs 17:17 · KJV
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:24 · KJV
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
John 15:13 · KJV
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 · KJV
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Proverbs 27:17 · KJV
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
1 Samuel 18:1 · KJV
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Proverbs 27:9 · KJV
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
John 15:15 · KJV
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Proverbs 13:20 · KJV
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Ruth 1:16 · KJV
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
1 Thessalonians 5:11 · KJV
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Proverbs 22:24-25 · KJV
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
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