Time For Friends

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;

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

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

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

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.

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.

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.’”

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

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

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

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

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

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

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox. — read the full passage →

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

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

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent, — read the full passage →

Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his sash.

Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.