Amigo
O amigo verdadeiro é dádiva rara de Deus. Ele ama em todo tempo, fala a verdade em amor, aconselha com sabedoria e permanece fiel nas adversidades da vida.
Amizade verdadeira
Há amigo mais chegado que um irmão. Em todo tempo ama o amigo. O perfume e o incenso alegram o coração — assim o conselho doce do amigo.
The man that has friends must show himself to be a friend, and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, so does the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Do not forsake thine own friend and thy father’s friend, 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.
He that walks with wise men shall be wise, but the companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Do not meddle with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul.
Most men will proclaim each one his own mercy, but who can find a man of truth?
Wealth makes many friends, but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Jesus, o amigo
Já não vos chamo servos, mas amigos. O maior amor é dar a vida pelo amigo. Jesus é o amigo que nunca falha.
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his soul for his friends.
Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you.
From now on I do not call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his lord does; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another as I have loved you.
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his soul for his friends.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his charity is completed in us.
In this we have known the charity of God because he laid down his life for us; we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
But whosoever has this world’s goods and sees his brother have need and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how does the charity of God abide in him?
My little children, let us not love in word neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
And that the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called the Friend of God.
loving one another with brotherly love, with honour preferring one another;
Companheiros de fé
Dois são melhores do que um. Os companheiros de fé se fortalecem mutuamente e caminham juntos com o Senhor.
Two are better than one because they have a better reward for their labour.
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falls, for he has not another to help him up.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that runs down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard, that goes down to the skirts of his garments;
as the dew of Hermon, that descends upon the mountains of Zion; for there the Lord commands blessing and eternal life.
I am a companion of all those that fear thee and of those that keep thy precepts.
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant because he loved him as his own soul.
Be not deceived: evil companions corrupt good character.