Good Friends

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

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

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

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

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

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

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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

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

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

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.

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

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 →

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.

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

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

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

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

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

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

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

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

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.

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

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

“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

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

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

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.

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.

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

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife. — read the full passage →

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Then Job answered, — read the full passage →

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife. — read the full passage →

as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God, — read the full passage →

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

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

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

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

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! — read the full passage →

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

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,

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

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

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

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

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

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

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.

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;

Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb. — 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 →

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

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

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

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.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, drew near. — read the full passage →

Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, — read the full passage →

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”