Language
Proverbs
17:17 -
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs
27:17 -
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Ecclesiastes
4:9 -
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Ecclesiastes
4:10 -
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
John
15:13 -
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Proverbs
18:24 -
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs
27:9 -
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
1 Samuel
18:1 -
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
James
4:8 -
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Proverbs
27:6 -
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs
12:26 -
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Ecclesiastes
4:12 -
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Proverbs
13:20 -
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
John
15:15 -
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Proverbs
22:24 -
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Proverbs
22:25 -
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Job
2:11 -
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Proverbs
27:10 -
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs
27:5 -
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Romans
12:10 -
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
1 Corinthians
15:33 -
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Colossians
3:12 -
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Colossians
3:13 -
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Colossians
3:14 -
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.