Helping Friends

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

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.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

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

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys. — read the full passage →

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

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

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

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

The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

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

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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 →

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

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. — read the full passage →

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 →

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

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

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?” — 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.

“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’ — read the full passage →

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

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

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

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.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — 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 →

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

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.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

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

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

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

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

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

We love him, because he first loved us. — 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.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.

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.

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

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 if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. — read the full passage →

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

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 →

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 →

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

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. — read the full passage →

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

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

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 no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

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.