Restoring Friendship

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

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

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

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

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,

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

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

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

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

Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

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

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

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.

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.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

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

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

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

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table. — read the full passage →

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

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

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,

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

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 tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

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

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

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

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.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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

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

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 →

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

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

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

Pray without ceasing.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

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.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death. — read the full passage →

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

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

Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. — read the full passage →

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

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

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.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — 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.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

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

Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God, — read the full passage →

Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there. — read the full passage →

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus; — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.