Love & Relationships

Bible Verses About family and friends

11 key scriptures

Explore what the Bible says about family and friends. This collection of 11 key Scripture passages reveals God's wisdom and guidance on this important theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: Proverbs 18:24
King James (KJV)A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

11 Key Scriptures

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! together: Heb. even together
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. house: or, kindred
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; with: or, in the love of the brethren
But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
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.
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

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