Thursday, April 17, 2014

Friendship guide from the Bible.



  • Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. James 4:8

  • Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. Proverbs 13:20

  • Do not be deceived: Bad company ruins good morals. 1 Corinthians 15:33

  • One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of the wicked leads them astray Proverbs 12:26

  • A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding. Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge. Proverbs 14:6-7

  • Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. Proverbs 22:24-25

  • And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. Luke 6:31

  • Love one another with brotherly affection. Out do one another in showing honor. Romans 12:10

  • Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counsellors there is safety. Proverbs 11:14

  • A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Proverbs 17:17

  • Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. Proverbs 19:20

  • A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might. Proverbs 24:5

  • Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17

  • But Ruth said; do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people and your God my God. Ruth 1:16

  • And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father’s house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. 1 Samuel 18:1-3

  • Now when Jobs three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, they made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him. Job 2:11

  • And Elijah said to Elisha, Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel. But Elisha said, As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you. So they went down to Bethel. 2 Kings 2:2

  • This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. . John 15:12-14

  • Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:31-32

  • If one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. Colossians 3:13-14

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