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.
24 A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
17 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
10 Yours own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go:25 Lest you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul.
6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
4 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.
13 Greater love (o. agape) has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.14 All of you are my friends, if all of you do whatsoever I command you.15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not 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.
12 This is my commandment, That all of you love one another, as I have loved you.13 Greater love (o. agape) has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.12 No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love (o. agape) is perfected in us.
16 Hereby perceive we the love (o. agape) of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.17 But whoso has this world's good, and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwells the love (o. agape) of God in him?18 My little children, let us not love in word, (o. logos) neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
23 And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
10 Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in 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.
9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.10 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.
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
63 I am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that keep your precepts.
3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.