Companionship

The two <FI>are<Fi> better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; — read the full passage →

A man with friends <FI>is<Fi> to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself--let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such <FI>cases<Fi> , and in peace hath God called us;

Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

And, lo, two of them were going on during that day to a village, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, the name of which <FI>is<Fi> Emmaus, — read the full passage →

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

The two <FI>are<Fi> better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

A companion I <FI>am<Fi> to all who fear Thee, And to those keeping Thy precepts.

Do two walk together if they have not met?

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled, — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

He who committeth adultery <FI>with<Fi> a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

And Jehovah God causeth a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he sleepeth, and He taketh one of his ribs, and closeth up flesh in its stead. — read the full passage →

And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host; — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers. — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it <FI>is<Fi> .

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,

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

Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in, — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

Jesus saith to them, `Bring ye from the fishes that ye caught now;' — read the full passage →

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

`Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time, — read the full passage →

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

and we have known that the law <FI>is<Fi> good, if any one may use it lawfully; — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

become not, then, partakers with them,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband:

the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife. — read the full passage →

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly--as to babes in Christ; — read the full passage →

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned;

And in prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing, Committing adultery, and walking falsely, Yea, they strengthened the hands of evil doers, So that they have not turned back Each from his wickedness, They have been to me--all of them--as Sodom, And its inhabitants as Gomorrah.

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

The righteous searcheth his companion, And the way of the wicked causeth them to err.

God--causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only--the refractory have inhabited a dry place.

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--

And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,

that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship <FI>is<Fi> with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

who, being in the form of God, thought <FI>it<Fi> not robbery to be equal to God, — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

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

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place--Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite--and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;

and Elijah saith unto Elisha, `Abide, I pray thee, here, for Jehovah hath sent me unto Beth-El;' and Elisha saith, `Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, if I leave thee;' and they go down to Beth-El.

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend <FI>it<Fi> .

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;' and, `Friend of God' he was called.

Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens--Jesus the Son of God--may we hold fast the profession, — read the full passage →

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.