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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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!’

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 →

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.

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

“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.”

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

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.

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

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 →

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

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.

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

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.

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 →

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,

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

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!”

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

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.

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

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.

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

Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

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.

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 →

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.

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

Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

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

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,

Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend forever?

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.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

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 →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘Yahweh shall be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever.’” He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

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.