Being A Friend

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

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

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

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

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

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

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: — read the full passage →

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

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.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. — read the full passage →

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

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.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

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 →

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

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.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

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 →

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

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 →

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.” Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

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 →

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

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.

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God, — read the full passage →

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 →

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

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.”

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: — read the full passage →

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

When he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. — read the full passage →

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; — read the full passage →

She went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

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.

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife. — read the full passage →

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend forever?

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;

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 →