Friendships

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

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 commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

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

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

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

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.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

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 →

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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.

that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established; — read the full passage →

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

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.”

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another; — read the full passage →

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

As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. — read the full passage →

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.”

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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 →

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

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 →

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.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. — read the full passage →

Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him. — 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, — read the full passage →

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

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

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 →