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,

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

If the person is from five years old even to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

“‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without defect.

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

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

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

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them “Adam”.

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

if his sin, in which he has sinned, is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without defect.

(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);

You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

Both you shall put male and female outside of the camp; that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”

If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

If the person is from a month old even to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.

that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.

and he shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. “‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.

“‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.

“‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings; if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before Yahweh.

“‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep, or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect.

“All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.

Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.

went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

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

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

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.

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.

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.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

“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.

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

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 →

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

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;

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. — 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.

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

When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

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.

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.

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

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

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

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.

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 →

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

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.

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.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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

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

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife. — read the full passage →

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife. — read the full passage →

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Then Job answered, — read the full passage →

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