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

Verses about how God love us

• For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

• God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

• For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:38

• I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now lives in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20

• See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1 John 3:1

• Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8

• For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. Galatians 5:13

• For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. Galatians 5:13

• No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Romans 8:37

• Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart. 1 Peter 1:22

• Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7

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

• You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23:5-6

• Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. Proverbs 10:12

• Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. Psalm 63:3

• Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love! Psalm 31:16

• Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:18

• Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Philippians 2:2

• With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:2-3

• Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Matthew 6:25

• Jesus answered, the most important is, Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Mark 12:28-30

God overthrown the wicked but the upright shall flourish

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. Proverbs 14:11

How successful is your family? How long will it last? What impact will it have for truth and wisdom? God and men will overthrow the house of the wicked, but they will bless and favor the estate of the righteous. Solomon watched families of wicked men come and go, but he saw the godly seed of the righteous continuing in prosperity for generations (Ps 37:34-40). Here is a proverb that condemns the wicked and encourages the upright.

Lenten season or Holy week: How we remember Jesus passion

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Holy week is the last week of 40 days of Lenten season; it's started on Palm Sunday remembering the triumph entrance of Jesus in Jerusalem where the people laid palm leaves in the street when Jesus passes. The last week is a holy week was a remembrance of Jesus passion, death and resurrection.

Other important moments of the celebration, specifically, the memorial of the Lord's death on Good Friday, and Holy Thursday. The latter involved no fewer than three very different Eucharistic celebrations.

According to the various sources of different liturgies, a Mass was celebrated to reconcile sinners, a Chrism Mass and a Mass in the evening to commemorate the institution of the Eucharist.
In the present-day liturgy, the Easter triduum begins on Holy Thursday evening with the Mass of the Lord's Supper and is united to the first day of the triduum which is, in itself, Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord.

The second day is Holy Saturday of the Lord's burial, a day of silence, fasting and expectation. There is no Eucharist that day, as a sign of expectation. The Church pauses before the crucified Lord's sepulcher and awaits his resurrection. With the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night, the third day of the Easter triduum begins: Sunday of the Lord's resurrection.


Why the date of holy week is different every year?

Because the date of Palm Sunday depends on the date of Easter, the dates of Holy Week change every year. It depend on Paschal Full Moon


What is the Paschal Full Moon?

By Mary Fairchild In the early days of the Christian church, Easter was celebrated on the Sunday immediately following the first astronomical full moon after the vernal (spring) equinox. Over the course of history, beginning in 325 AD with the Council of Nicea, the Western Church decided to establish a more standardized system for determining the date of Easter. Astronomers were able to approximate the dates of all the full moons in future years for the Western Christian churches, thus establishing a table of Ecclesiastical Full Moon dates. These dates would determine the Holy Days on the Ecclesiastical Calendar. 

Though modified slightly from its original form, by 1583 AD the table for determining the Ecclesiastical Full Moon dates was permanently established and has been used ever since to determine the date of Easter. Thus, according to the Ecclesiastical tables, the Paschal (Passover) Full Moon is the first Ecclesiastical Full Moon date after March 20 (which happened to be the vernal equinox date in 325 AD). So, in Western Christianity, Easter is always celebrated on the Sunday immediately following the Paschal Full Moon. The Paschal Full Moon can vary as much as two days from the date of the actual full moon, with dates ranging from March 21 to April 18. As a result, Easter dates can range from March 22 through April 25 in Western Christianity.

This not to attack anybody but to tell what the bible says, about how we remember the Lord passion, death and resurrection.

According to Father Flores of Rome, this Lenten event is come from ancient original core of Holy Week is the Easter Vigil, of which there were traces already in the second century of the Christian era. The Easter Vigil was extended in time and transformed into the triduum of the Lord's passion, death and resurrection, which St. Augustine already mentioned as a very generalized celebration.

It says that it’s in remembrance of the Lord passion, death and resurrection, but the Lord Jesus told us how we remember him "For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. 1Cor. 11:23-26. this the way we should remember the lords death, that’s why a true bible believer didn’t joined in holy week. They conduct a holy suffer in remembrance of the lord Jesus.

If you are a true Christian believer, you will follow it? What the apostles say about the gospel not come from God. "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!" Gal 1:8-9. they will condemned. I don’t want to be condemned!

What we should follow the teaching of men or the teaching of God.

Source: Catholicism. Catholic Headline. CatholicCulture, Bible (NIV)

What the Bible say about our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ, a man, who‘s given by God a Highest Nobility and Quantities.

If someone read it he might think, I’m hitting other religion, but it’s not, this love for my fellowmen, I doing it to share, in my own knowledge about our Lord Jesus which I know is right because it’s from the bible, I been once deceive by some philosopher and lecturer that our Lord Jesus is God, but when I read the bible it open my mind to the truth, I didn’t found that the Lord Jesus Christ is God but He say He is a man and He teaches about God. (John 17:1-3), and He is, as a messenger.

I have a friend he is in other religion; every time he saw me he always told me the teaching of their church about the lord Jesus and inviting me. one day I challenged him, I told him to look for the verse in the bible telling that the Lord Jesus Christ is God and return to me, but he didn‘t comeback even we saw each other just a wave of the hand is enough for us, he didn’t come to me anymore but we‘re still friends.

It is my own belief, I have no intention to hurt someone who believes that our Lord Jesus is God but it’s in the bible and the bible is true, He is the one who say it, our Lord say to those who want to kill Him. "As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things" -John 8:40. He says, He is a man who has told the true that he heard from God. He himself told it. Some people are interpreting the bible giving their own meaning. Another one is, Apostle Paul told to timothy, "For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" -1 Tim 2:5. He says there are one God and one mediator between God and Men, the Man Jesus Christ. So, the apostle knows it. another verse says, “Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know." -Act 2:22. If we continue to read up to verse 24 it say God raised the Lord Jesus from dead, He is a man that need God, He was born by a woman from the spirit of God (Mat 1:18-20)  an innocent men that condemned and murdered (James 5:8)

I acknowledge and believe that Jesus Christ is lord and Savior, He is our mediator to God, and we cannot come to God without him.

God gave Jesus the highest nobility and quantities.

• As a Lord and Christ “Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.” -Act 2:36,

• As a prince and savior "God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savoir that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins" -Act 5:31

• As a mediator "For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" -1Tim 2:5

• And God give Him a name above every name and to worship Him for following God‘s command. "Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" -Phil 2:9-11

This is my belief after I read the bible and found the true Church of Christ, (Rom. 16:16). I was sharing this for those who still seeking for the truth and salvation; I’m not a minister but all of us commanded by God to share His word for the salvation of men.

I believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and I Worship Him for the Glory of God.

Reference: Bible, New International Version 1984