Friendship — Page 2
Verses 11–20 of 29
Sirach 6:14 KJV
“A faithful friend is a strong protection: a man who has found one has found a treasure.”
Context & Meaning
A loyal friend is depicted as both a shield and a treasure, rare, valuable, and providing genuine security in the storms of life.
Proverbs 13:20 KJV
“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”
Context & Meaning
The people we choose as close companions shape who we become, wisdom is transferable through genuine friendship, and so is foolishness.
Job 2:11 KJV
“Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.”
Context & Meaning
Job's friends initially model the right response to a suffering friend, dropping everything, traveling to be present, and sitting with him in grief without speaking.
James 2:23 KJV
“And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.”
Context & Meaning
Abraham's faith-filled life led to one of the most remarkable titles any human being could receive, "Friend of God", showing that divine friendship is the ultimate friendship.
Colossians 3:14 KJV
“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”
Context & Meaning
Love is the garment that holds all other relational virtues together, the bond that makes friendship and community truly unified and complete.
Proverbs 27:5 KJV
“Open rebuke is better than secret love.”
Proverbs 27:10 KJV
“Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.”
1 Samuel 20:16 KJV
“So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.”
1 Samuel 20:17 KJV
“And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.”
Proverbs 22:24 KJV
“Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:”