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True Friendships

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1 Corinthians 15:33

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

John 15:14

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

John 15:13

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

James 4:4

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.

1 John 4:1

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.

Hebrews 10:25

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

John 15:12–17

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

John 14:6

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

1 John 4:7

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

1 John 3:1

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

Hebrews 13:17

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Colossians 3:13

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.

Colossians 3:12–14

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

Philippians 1:7

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.

Romans 12:2

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.

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

John 15:15

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.

John 15:12–15

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

Luke 6:31

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

John 15:13–14

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

Revelation 11:1–19

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 →

Revelation 1:1

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,

1 John 4:21

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

2 Peter 2:3

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

James 4:11

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.

James 4:3

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

James 2:23

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.

Hebrews 12:1

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,

Hebrews 2:14

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,

Philemon 1:25

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

1 Thessalonians 5:11

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

Philippians 4:13

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

Ephesians 6:1–24

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Galatians 3:1–29

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 12:7–10

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 16:19

The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house.

1 Corinthians 14:33

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

1 Corinthians 14:4

He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.

1 Corinthians 12:1–31

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

Romans 12:10

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

Romans 1:11–12

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 →

Acts 17:10–11

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

John 17:1–26

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; — read the full passage →

John 15:2

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.

John 15:1–27

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

John 13:34–35

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 →

Luke 1:37

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Matthew 28:1–20

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. — read the full passage →

Matthew 24:24

For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

Matthew 19:19

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

Matthew 16:18

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

Matthew 7:21–23

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 →

Matthew 6:1–34

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:14–16

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. — read the full passage →

Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: WEB.