Being A Friend

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

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

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

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins. — read the full passage →

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.

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.

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

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

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. — 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.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

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

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

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

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. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

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

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.

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

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another; — read the full passage →

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

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.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established; — read the full passage →

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

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

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

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

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

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

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.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

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

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; — read the full passage →

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. — read the full passage →