Jesus As A Friend

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.

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

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.

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

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 be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

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

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

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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.

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

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

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

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,

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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.

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

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 →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need;

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

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

to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. — read the full passage →

All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

“I have yet many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord, — read the full passage →

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.