Choosing Friends

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

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

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

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

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

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.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.

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

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — 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 →

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.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites. — 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,

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

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

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.” — read the full passage →

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 →

The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

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

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 →

Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

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

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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

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

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

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.

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

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent. — read the full passage →

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

Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts. — read the full passage →

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

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 →

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. — read the full passage →

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men. — read the full passage →

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

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