True Friendships

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.”

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

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

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

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

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 →

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

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

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 →

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.

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.

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

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.

“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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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,

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,

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

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

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

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

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 →

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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.

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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 →

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.

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

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.

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 →

“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 →

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

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.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

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

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

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

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

to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.

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

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 →

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

David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?” — read the full passage →

David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.

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.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

“‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.