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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 19:6-7 NIV
6 Many curry favor with a ruler,
    and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.
7 The poor are shunned by all their relatives—
    how much more do their friends avoid them!
Though the poor pursue them with pleading,
    they are nowhere to be found.
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Job 16:20-21 NIV
20 My intercessor is my friend
    as my eyes pour out tears to God;
21 on behalf of a man he pleads with God
    as one pleads for a friend.
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Psalm 68:6 NIV
God sets the lonely in families,
    he leads out the prisoners with singing;
    but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
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Ecclesiastes 4:9 NIV
Two are better than one,
    because they have a good return for their labor:
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2 Corinthians 6:14 NIV
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
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1 Corinthians 10:24 NIV
No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
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Matthew 19:19 NIV
honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’
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James 2:23 NIV
And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.
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John 15:13-15 NIV
13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
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John 13:34-35 NIV
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
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