25 Bible Verses About Loyalty (NIV)

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 replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. ¹⁷ Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."

²¹ He who pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.

³⁵ But Peter declared, "Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And all the other disciples said the same.

¹ Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good,

¹ Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.

¹³ Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. ¹⁴ Do everything in love.

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

³ Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

¹⁵ "If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.

³³ Peter replied, "Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will."

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

⁴ If a ruler's anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great errors to rest.

⁹ Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.

⁶ He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the LORD's anointed, or lift my hand against him; for he is the anointed of the LORD." ⁷ With these words David rebuked his men and did not allow them to attack Saul. And Saul left the cave and went his way. ⁸ Then David went out of the cave and called out to Saul, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground. ⁹ He said to Saul, "Why do you listen when men say, 'David is bent on harming you'? ¹⁰ This day you have seen with your own eyes how the LORD delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you; I said, 'I will not lift my hand against my master, because he is the LORD's anointed.'

² Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.

⁶ Many a man claims to have unfailing love, but a faithful man who can find?

⁸ They would not be like their forefathers- a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.

¹⁶ I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

¹⁷ As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

¹³ if we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself.

¹⁶ But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.

¹³ But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.