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Want to know what the Bible says about Friends? Here are 60 Bible verses about 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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John 15:13 NIV
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
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Ecclesiastes 4:10 NIV
If either of them falls down,
    one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
    and has no one to help them up.
303
Proverbs 18:24 NIV
One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,
    but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
289
Proverbs 17:17 NIV
A friend loves at all times,
    and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
267
Proverbs 13:20 NIV
Walk with the wise and become wise,
    for a companion of fools suffers harm.
227
Proverbs 27:17 NIV
As iron sharpens iron,
    so one person sharpens another.
152
John 15:15 NIV
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.
137
Psalm 41:9 NIV
Even my close friend,
    someone I trusted,
one who shared my bread,
    has turned against me.
119

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