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Want to know what the Bible says about Making Friends? Here are 85 Bible verses about Making Friends from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Proverbs 18:24 NIV
One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,
    but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
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Proverbs 17:17 NIV
A friend loves at all times,
    and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
306
Proverbs 27:17 NIV
As iron sharpens iron,
    so one person sharpens another.
291
Proverbs 13:20 NIV
Walk with the wise and become wise,
    for a companion of fools suffers harm.
205
Proverbs 12:26 NIV
The righteous choose their friends carefully,
    but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
202
John 15:13 NIV
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
196
Proverbs 22:24-25 NIV
24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person,
    do not associate with one easily angered,
25 or you may learn their ways
    and get yourself ensnared.
186
Proverbs 16:28 NIV
A perverse person stirs up conflict,
    and a gossip separates close friends.
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