Iron Sharpens Iron Coloring Page

On the first Sunday of every August (that’s today!), we celebrate National Friendship Day. So today’s coloring page features Proverbs 27:17: “As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.”

Friends come in all shapes and sizes. They may be coworkers or classmates, military buddies or moms of preschoolers, next door neighbors or nieces and nephews.

Regardless of who they are or how you met them, true friends will help you become the best possible version of yourself. They will build you up and encourage you, to be sure. But they will also stretch and challenge you.

Which is exactly what the Bible is talking about when it says that iron sharpens iron.

I’ve often thought this is one of the advantages to having a big family (besides having built-in friends!). All those siblings serve to sort of knock the rough edges off one another — like rocks in a tumbler. And thanks to this ongoing process, what eventually gets sent out into the world is polished and smooth.

This why we’ve always had the rule that if you can’t get along with your brothers and sisters, you can’t spend time with your friends. As important as outside friendships are to us, family is forever, so we do all we can to encourage siblings to build friendships with one another first.

And here’s that same coloring page in Spanish, for all my friends south of the border! 🙂

More for You to Color

I hope you enjoy this week’s coloring page. If you like to color, then come back again next Sunday for a new one. To download any of the pages I’ve published in the past, simply follow this link: Free Christian Coloring Pages. If you’d prefer a bound collection, check out my Color the Word series. I designed these richly detailed, Scripture-based coloring books with grown-ups in mind. But they can be enjoyed by all ages. They’re even available in Spanish!

For those who enjoy journaling as well as coloring, my devotional journals offer the best of both worlds. Now with twelve titles to choose from.

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