Friends With Unbelievers

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

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

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

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; — read the full passage →

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

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.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →

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.

Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.

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

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: — read the full passage →

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

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

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you; — read the full passage →

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

If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him, — read the full passage →

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

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.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. — read the full passage →

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

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

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Yahweh said to Moses, — read the full passage →

and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

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

But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.

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

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 →

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

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

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient, — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

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

Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in your midst:

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. — read the full passage →

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.

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

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

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

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

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

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

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

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

then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

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.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

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

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

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

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; — read the full passage →

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.

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

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. — read the full passage →

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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

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

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

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

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe. — read the full passage →

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

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.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

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.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.

“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell. — read the full passage →

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?” — 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 →

Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah; — read the full passage →

You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.