True Friends

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

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

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

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

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

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

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance. — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

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

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.

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.

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

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

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

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high, — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

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

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

Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright. — read the full passage →

Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

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.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

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

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

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

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

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

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

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

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.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

“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.

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

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

I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

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

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. — read the full passage →

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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.

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.

So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

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.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

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.

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

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

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.

The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

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

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

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

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. — 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.

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

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — 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.

Then Job answered, — read the full passage →

When he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. — read the full passage →

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star.”

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

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

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

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

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

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, — read the full passage →

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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

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.

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

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

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

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

Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”

Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

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

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

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

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 →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →