Qualities of a Good Friend
Feeling good
Supporting each other
Love the differences
Be a good listener
Be a trustworthy friend
Maintain respect and respectful boundaries
Give them your time
Reciprocal connection
Create a community
Quality over quantity
1 Thessalonians 5:11
11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
1 Corinthians 15:33
33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
Colossians 3:13
13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Ecclesiastes 4:10
10 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.
John 15:12-13
12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Proverbs 17:17
17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
James 2:23 (NLT)
23 And so it happened just as the Scriptures say: “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.” He was even called the friend of God.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (NLT) Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. 10 If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. 11 Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? 12 A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.
Acquaintance
A Good Friend
A Spouse
John 15:9-17 (NLT) 9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! 12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. 13 There is no greater love than 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 slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. 16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
