100 Bible Verses about Loyalty

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 1,306 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 1,272 helpful votes

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 21:21 ESV / 938 helpful votes

Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.

John 15:13 ESV / 805 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Romans 13:1 ESV / 767 helpful votes

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

John 3:16 ESV / 764 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Titus 3:1 ESV / 750 helpful votes

Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 737 helpful votes

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 691 helpful votes

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Ecclesiastes 10:4 ESV / 690 helpful votes

If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.

Proverbs 3:3 ESV / 665 helpful votes

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Matthew 26:35 ESV / 662 helpful votes

Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same.

Matthew 26:33 ESV / 595 helpful votes

Peter answered him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.”

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 577 helpful votes

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

1 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 557 helpful votes

Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

Psalm 78:8 ESV / 557 helpful votes

And that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 553 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

1 Samuel 24:6-10 ESV / 541 helpful votes

He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the Lord's anointed.” So David persuaded his men with these words and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave and went on his way. Afterward David also arose and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and paid homage. And David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Behold, David seeks your harm’? Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord's anointed.’

1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ESV / 535 helpful votes

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.

John 14:15 ESV / 523 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Proverbs 20:6 ESV / 499 helpful votes

Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?

Romans 1:16 ESV / 483 helpful votes

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Proverbs 20:28 ESV / 479 helpful votes

Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by steadfast love his throne is upheld.

Ezra 6:10 ESV / 478 helpful votes

That they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

Proverbs 27:10 ESV / 477 helpful votes

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

John 16:13 ESV / 475 helpful votes

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Ruth 1:16 ESV / 475 helpful votes

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.

2 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 471 helpful votes

If we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.

Proverbs 24:21 ESV / 467 helpful votes

My son, fear the Lord and the king, and do not join with those who do otherwise,

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 466 helpful votes

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

1 Samuel 26:6-16 ESV / 466 helpful votes

Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab's brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah, “Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.” So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him. Then Abishai said to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.” But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless?” And David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish. ...

Ecclesiastes 8:2 ESV / 461 helpful votes

I say: Keep the king's command, because of God's oath to him.

Philippians 4:3 ESV / 451 helpful votes

Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Proverbs 17:11 ESV / 441 helpful votes

An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

Acts 5:29 ESV / 440 helpful votes

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 438 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Ezra 7:26 ESV / 435 helpful votes

Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”

1 John 3:24 ESV / 430 helpful votes

Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 428 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 408 helpful votes

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Luke 1:37 ESV / 401 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 392 helpful votes

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

2 Samuel 15:21 ESV / 388 helpful votes

But Ittai answered the king, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 365 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Matthew 26:33-35 ESV / 361 helpful votes

Peter answered him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.” Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same.

John 14:6 ESV / 360 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

2 Peter 2:10 ESV / 354 helpful votes

And especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,

Luke 14:33 ESV / 347 helpful votes

So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Esther 2:21-23 ESV / 347 helpful votes

In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai. When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.

1 Chronicles 12:38 ESV / 346 helpful votes

All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with a whole heart to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king.

2 Samuel 16:17 ESV / 346 helpful votes

And Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”

1 Chronicles 12:33 ESV / 341 helpful votes

Of Zebulun 50,000 seasoned troops, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war, to help David with singleness of purpose.

Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 339 helpful votes

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 336 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Job 34:18 ESV / 325 helpful votes

Who says to a king, ‘Worthless one,’ and to nobles, ‘Wicked man,’

Revelation 2:2 ESV / 323 helpful votes

“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.

Proverbs 19:22 ESV / 321 helpful votes

What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.

Hosea 6:4 ESV / 318 helpful votes

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.

Ezra 10:8 ESV / 318 helpful votes

And that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.

2 Samuel 21:17 ESV / 318 helpful votes

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, “You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”

John 8:12 ESV / 315 helpful votes

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Luke 14:26-27 ESV / 312 helpful votes

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 309 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

2 Samuel 18:3 ESV / 308 helpful votes

But the men said, “You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.”

Joshua 1:16-18 ESV / 304 helpful votes

And they answered Joshua, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the Lord your God be with you, as he was with Moses! Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”

2 Samuel 15:23 ESV / 295 helpful votes

And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.

Revelation 2:10 ESV / 290 helpful votes

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

2 Samuel 15:30 ESV / 290 helpful votes

But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered. And all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went.

2 Samuel 18:12 ESV / 277 helpful votes

But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king's son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.’

John 3:16-17 ESV / 269 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 268 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 267 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 259 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

2 Kings 11:4-12 ESV / 254 helpful votes

But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the Lord. And he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the Lord, and he showed them the king's son. And he commanded them, “This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, those who come off duty on the Sabbath and guard the king's house (another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards) shall guard the palace. And the two divisions of you, which come on duty in force on the Sabbath and guard the house of the Lord on behalf of the king, shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever approaches the ranks is to be put to death. Be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.” ...

Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 241 helpful votes

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.

2 Samuel 19:6 ESV / 241 helpful votes

Because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.

Hosea 6:6 ESV / 240 helpful votes

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Luke 14:1-35 ESV / 238 helpful votes

One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” ...

Numbers 27:20 ESV / 236 helpful votes

You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of the people of Israel may obey.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 230 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

James 1:8 ESV / 220 helpful votes

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Exodus 22:28 ESV / 218 helpful votes

“You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Amos 2:4 ESV / 212 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 194 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 25:19 ESV / 190 helpful votes

Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.

Obadiah 1:12 ESV / 187 helpful votes

But do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; do not boast in the day of distress.

Numbers 31:41 ESV / 186 helpful votes

And Moses gave the tribute, which was the contribution for the Lord, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Job 23:2 ESV / 182 helpful votes

“Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.

John 15:12-15 ESV / 181 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 181 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

John 8:29 ESV / 167 helpful votes

And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 164 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 164 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

2 Samuel 3:37 ESV / 158 helpful votes

So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to put to death Abner the son of Ner.

2 Samuel 1:14 ESV / 158 helpful votes

David said to him, “How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the Lord's anointed?”

Ezekiel 36:1-38 ESV / 157 helpful votes

“And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy said of you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The ancient heights have become our possession,’ therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people, therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around, therefore thus says the Lord God: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey. ...

Micah 6:8 ESV / 145 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

John 15:12 ESV / 135 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 134 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

John 10:10 ESV / 132 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

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