Friends And Friendship

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

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; — read the full passage →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends; — read the full passage →

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

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.

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

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

for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

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.

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, — read the full passage →

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

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

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

for where there are two or three gathered together--to my name, there am I in the midst of them.'

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

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins; — read the full passage →

and that is, that I may be comforted together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

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.

That disciple, therefore, whom Jesus was loving saith to Peter, `The Lord it is!' Simon Peter, therefore, having heard that it is the Lord, did gird on the outer coat, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea;

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

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,

Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

who for my life their own neck did lay down, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations--

and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.

and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you--to the age;

And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, `If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink;

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. — read the full passage →

honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

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

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

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;