Bad Friends

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

`And, if thy right hand doth cause thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in, — read the full passage →

Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

The righteous searcheth his companion, And the way of the wicked causeth them to err.

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

A man with friends <FI>is<Fi> to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from--for they are unprofitable and vain. — read the full passage →

My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

Crooked <FI>is<Fi> the heart above all things, And it <FI>is<Fi> incurable--who doth know it?

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; — read the full passage →

Better <FI>is<Fi> open reproof than hidden love. — read the full passage →

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend--from counsel of the soul.

And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place--Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite--and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

The two <FI>are<Fi> better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. — read the full passage →

I confess Thee, because that <FI>with<Fi> wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful <FI>are<Fi> Thy works, And my soul is knowing <FI>it<Fi> well.

The two <FI>are<Fi> better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. — read the full passage →

`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him, — read the full passage →

A scorner hath sought wisdom, and it is not, And knowledge to the intelligent <FI>is<Fi> easy. — read the full passage →

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

And he hath filled their houses <FI>with<Fi> good: (And the counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

Mighty <FI>is<Fi> the wise in strength, And a man of knowledge is strengthening power,

Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.

and Elijah saith unto Elisha, `Abide, I pray thee, here, for Jehovah hath sent me unto Beth-El;' and Elisha saith, `Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, if I leave thee;' and they go down to Beth-El.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, — read the full passage →

for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war, — read the full passage →

The words of the wicked <FI>are<Fi> : `Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners; — read the full passage →

A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find?

And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

To a despiser of his friends <FI>is<Fi> shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.

And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver <FI>with<Fi> his lips make not thyself surety.

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

And Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses face unto face, as a man speaketh unto his friend; and he hath turned back unto the camp, and his minister Joshua, son of Nun, a youth, departeth not out of the tent.

Without counsels do a people fall, And deliverance <FI>is<Fi> in a multitude of counsellors.

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him; — read the full passage →

for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,

all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace <FI>are<Fi> his lips, a king <FI>is<Fi> his friend.

To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things, — read the full passage →

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear <FI>it<Fi> , He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him. — read the full passage →

For Thy kindness <FI>is<Fi> great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Many are saying of my soul, `There is no salvation for him in God.' Selah. — read the full passage →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends; — read the full passage →

Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.

Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better <FI>is<Fi> a near neighbour than a brother afar off.

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not. — read the full passage →

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers; — read the full passage →

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother, — read the full passage →

having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

for David saith in regard to him: I foresaw the Lord always before me--because He is on my right hand--that I may not be moved;

and Jesus was advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and men.

And it cometh to pass, when he finisheth to speak unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan hath been bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loveth him as his own soul. — read the full passage →

What, then, shall we say? the law <FI>is<Fi> sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said: — read the full passage →

for where there are two or three gathered together--to my name, there am I in the midst of them.'

`But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna. — read the full passage →

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

And Ruth saith, `Urge me not to leave thee--to turn back from after thee; for whither thou goest I go, and where thou lodgest I lodge; thy people <FI>is<Fi> my people, and thy God my God. — read the full passage →