Friends With Unbelievers

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

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

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

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.

`Ye may not give that which is <FI>holy<Fi> to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned--may rend you.

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

`And whoever may not receive you nor hear your words, coming forth from that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet,

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

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men; — read the full passage →

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend--from counsel of the soul.

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

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

`But--if ye at all turn back and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you, — read the full passage →

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

if any one doth come unto you, and this teaching doth not bear, receive him not into the house, and say not to him, `Hail!' — read the full passage →

Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

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.

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling; — read the full passage →

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

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

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;

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

and there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known;

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

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 →

Mighty <FI>is<Fi> the wise in strength, And a man of knowledge is strengthening power,

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

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil, — read the full passage →

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness? — read the full passage →

and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;

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;

Thus said Jehovah: Cursed <FI>is<Fi> the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth. — read the full passage →

take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which thou art going, lest it become a snare in thy midst;

because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh; this one is he who is leading astray, and the antichrist. — read the full passage →

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; — 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 this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

Do two walk together if they have not met?

Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.

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

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

Better <FI>is<Fi> open reproof than hidden love. — read the full passage →

A scorner hath sought wisdom, and it is not, And knowledge to the intelligent <FI>is<Fi> easy. — read the full passage →

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;

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

the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for <FI>him<Fi> , and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

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.

have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments? — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

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

Without counsel <FI>is<Fi> the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

And king Solomon hath loved many strange women, and the daughter of Pharaoh, females of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Zidon, <FI>and<Fi> of the Hittites, — read the full passage →

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.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

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,

as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom hath it been revealed? — read the full passage →

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age--let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with <FI>him<Fi> , that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin; — read the full passage →

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

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

A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find?

My interpreter <FI>is<Fi> my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:

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

Who <FI>is<Fi> wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; the same things to write to you to me indeed is not tiresome, and for you <FI>is<Fi> sure; — read the full passage →

manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,

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.

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

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.

and all--as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'

`And when thou mayest pray, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites, because they love in the synagogues, and in the corners of the broad places--standing--to pray, that they may be seen of men; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.

and Jonathan addeth to cause David to swear, because he loveth him, for with the love of his own soul he hath loved him.

And it hath been, in Jehovah thy God's giving rest to thee, from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee--an inheritance to possess it--thou dost blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens--thou dost not forget.

`And if ye do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it hath been, those whom ye let remain of them, <FI>are<Fi> for pricks in your eyes, and for thorns in your sides, and they have distressed you on the land in which ye are dwelling, — read the full passage →

and he who did look into the perfect law--that of liberty, and did continue there, this one--not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work--this one shall be happy in his doing.

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise, — read the full passage →

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

our fathers in this mountain did worship, and ye--ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it behoveth to worship.'

All of them answer and say unto thee, Even thou hast become weak like us! Unto us thou hast become like! — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass, when he finisheth to speak unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan hath been bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loveth him as his own soul. — read the full passage →

And all the elders of Israel gather themselves together, and come in unto Samuel to Ramath, — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not plow with an ox and with an ass together.