Friend

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

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.

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. — read the full passage →

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

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

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

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.

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

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

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

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

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 →

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.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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

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

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

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

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

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.

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

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

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

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

All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.

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

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

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — 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.

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,

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.”

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

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you.

But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need;

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. — read the full passage →

Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord, — read the full passage →

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

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 →

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.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — 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.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

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.

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

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.