Bad Friends

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. — read the full passage →

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. — read the full passage →

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

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

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.” — read the full passage →

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. — read the full passage →

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.

For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” — read the full passage →

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.”

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”