25 Bible Verses About Loyalty (ESV)

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

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

16 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. 17 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.”

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

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

3:1 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

13:1 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.

13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14 Let all that you do be done in love.

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

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

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

15 “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.

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

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

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

9 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,

6 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.” 7 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.

8 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. 9 And David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Behold, David seeks your harm’? 10 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.’

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

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

8   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.

16 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.

17   Iron sharpens iron,
    and one man sharpens another.

13   if we are faithless, he remains faithful—

for he cannot deny himself.

16 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.

13 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.