10 Marks of Friendship for Trying Times

2. A friend lays down his life. John 15:13 states, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

 

This quality means a willingness to serve and sacrifice for others instead of serving self. John the Baptist demonstrated this: “The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. … He must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:29, 30). 

 

Jane Austen said it best: “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.”