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Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 103 helpful votes
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
John 15:13 ESV / 84 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 70 helpful votes
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
James 2:23 ESV / 36 helpful votes
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.
John 15:12 ESV / 35 helpful votes
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 31 helpful votes
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 30 helpful votes
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.
John 15:14-15 ESV / 29 helpful votes
You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Proverbs 22:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes
He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 22 helpful votes
One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Proverbs 27:5-6 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Matthew 18:15 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
James 4:4 ESV / 18 helpful votes
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
1 Samuel 18:1-3 ESV / 18 helpful votes
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 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.
Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 15 helpful votes
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. …
Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Proverbs 20:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?
John 15:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
Psalm 141:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
John 15:12-15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“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. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Luke 6:31 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Proverbs 3:32 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.
Job 2:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
2 Kings 2:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
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.
Romans 12:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Micah 7:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
Proverbs 25:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he have his fill of you and hate you.
Proverbs 17:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
1 John 4:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
John 15:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Proverbs 26:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.
2 Corinthians 10:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
Romans 12:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Psalm 41:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. …
Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. …
Romans 5:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
John 15:13-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
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. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
John 14:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
Psalm 55:12-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend. We used to take sweet counsel together; within God’s house we walked in the throng.
Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, 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.
Proverbs 19:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Many seek the favor of a generous man, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.
Proverbs 11:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.
Exodus 33:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2 Timothy 1:2-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
Job 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
2 Samuel 10:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And David said, “I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me.” So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the Ammonites.
2 Samuel 1:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.
1 Samuel 22:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. With me you shall be in safekeeping.”
1 Samuel 20:42 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.
Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
James 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2 Timothy 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,
Colossians 4:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Luke the beloved physician greets you, as does Demas.
Colossians 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.
Philippians 2:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,
Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, …
Ephesians 4:29-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor 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.
2 Corinthians 2:12-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord, my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.
1 Corinthians 15:33-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.” Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Romans 16:3-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well. Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.
Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. …
John 14:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 13:34-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Micah 4:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it, and many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore; but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken. For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever. …
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Proverbs 24:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,
2 Samuel 15:32-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
While David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn and dirt on his head. David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me. But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel. Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son, and by them you shall send to me everything you hear.” …
1 Samuel 20:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
1 Samuel 18:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Revelation 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
1 John 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
1 Peter 4:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Luke 23:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been at enmity with each other.
Proverbs 27:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.
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