Making Friends

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

“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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

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 →

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

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

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.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

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

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 →

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 →

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

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

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 →

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

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment. — read the full passage →

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — 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 →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

but I hope to see you soon, and we will speak face to face. Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. — read the full passage →

If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive 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;

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

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 →