Male Female Friendship

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,

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.

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

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

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

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

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

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

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.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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

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.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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

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

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 →

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.

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.

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

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

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.

(as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),

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.

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

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

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

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.

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

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

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

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.