Time For Friends

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. — 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.

He said to them, “You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile.” For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

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

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

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

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

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.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — 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 →

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

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

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

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 →

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. — read the full passage →

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →

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