Companionship

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

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

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.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

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

Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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

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

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

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.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer. — 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.

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.

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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

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

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.” — read the full passage →

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

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

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

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

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully, — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife. — read the full passage →

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness: they have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.

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

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

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

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

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.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

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

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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.

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.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

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.

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession. — read the full passage →

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