Friendships

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

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

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

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

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

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

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

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

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

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

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

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

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.

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

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

“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.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me.”

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

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

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 →

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

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

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.

Stay with me, don’t be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For with me you shall be in safeguard.”

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

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

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

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

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

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; — read the full passage →

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 →

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

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 →

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

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. — read the full passage →

When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn, and earth on his head. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

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 →

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.

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.”

Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot.

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 →

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

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 →

He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.

Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. — read the full passage →

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

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 →