Making Friends
10 passages
- Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
Read it in context - Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Read it in context - Proverbs 27:17
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
Read it in context - Proverbs 13:20
He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
Read it in context - Proverbs 12:26
A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.
Read it in context - Proverbs 22:24–25
24Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man, 25or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Read it in context - Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.
Read it in context - Luke 6:31
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
Read it in context - Proverbs 27:5–6
5Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed. 6The wounds of a friend are faithful, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
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