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Best Friends

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1 Corinthians 15:33

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

1 Thessalonians 5:11

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

Luke 6:31

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

1 John 4:7

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

1 Peter 4:8–10

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

James 4:4

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.

Romans 12:10

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

John 15:13

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

Colossians 3:13

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.

John 15:15

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.

John 15:12–15

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

Colossians 3:12–14

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

Galatians 6:2

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

Romans 1:11–12

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 →

Hebrews 10:24–25

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

Romans 1:12

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

John 15:12

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

John 15:12–14

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

1 John 4:21

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

James 2:23

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.

Ephesians 4:32

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

Romans 12:10–11

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

John 15:12–13

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

1 Corinthians 1:10

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.

Romans 13:10

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Romans 12:15

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

John 15:13–15

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

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

John 3:16–17

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 →

Revelation 1:1–20

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 →

1 John 3:1

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.

1 John 1:9

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

1 Peter 4:8

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

James 4:8

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

2 Timothy 1:2–4

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

Colossians 3:1–25

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 6:14

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

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

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 →

John 3:16

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.

Matthew 18:20

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

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 5:10

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.

Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: WEB.