Best Friends

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

“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 →

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

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

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 →

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

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.

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.

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

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

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 →

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

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

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him. — read the full passage →

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, — read the full passage →

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.

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 →

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.

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

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

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

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

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 →

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

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 →

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.

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

Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.

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

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment. — read the full passage →

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person. — read the full passage →

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

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

When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn, and earth on his head. — read the full passage →

David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

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.

Stay with me, don’t be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For with me you shall be in safeguard.”

Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘Yahweh shall be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever.’” He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

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 →

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

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

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.

Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars. — read the full passage →