24 One with many friends may be harmed,  *

but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.  *

24 One with many friends may be harmed,  *

but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.  *

17 A friend loves at all times,  *

and a brother is born for a difficult time.

17 A friend loves at all times,  *

and a brother is born for a difficult time.

9 Whoever conceals an offense promotes love,  *

but whoever gossips about it separates friends.  *

17 Iron sharpens iron,

and one person sharpens another.  *

17 Iron sharpens iron,

and one person sharpens another.  *

9 Oil  * and incense bring joy to the heart,

and the sweetness of a friend is better than self-counsel.  *

9 Oil  * and incense bring joy to the heart,

and the sweetness of a friend is better than self-counsel.  *

10 Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,  *

and don’t go to your brother’s house

in your time of calamity;

better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.  *

10 Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,  *

and don’t go to your brother’s house

in your time of calamity;

better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.  *

5 Better an open reprimand

than concealed love.  *

6 The wounds of a friend are trustworthy,  *

but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.  *

20 The one who walks with the wise will become wise,

but a companion of fools will suffer harm.

28 A contrary person spreads conflict,

and a gossip separates close friends.  *

24 Don’t make friends with an angry person,  *

and don’t be a companion of a hot-tempered one,  *

25 or you will learn his ways  *

and entangle yourself in a snare.

13 No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life*for his friends.

13 No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life*for his friends.

15 I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master*,*is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father.

12 "This is my command: Love one another as I have loved*you.

10 Love one another deeply as brothers and sisters.  * Take the lead in honoring one another.  *

11 For I want very much to see you,  * so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you, 12 that is, to be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God  * and knows God.

11 Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.  *12 No one has ever seen God.  * If we love one another, God remains in  * us and his love is made complete in us.

21 And we have this command from him: The one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.

1 When David had finished speaking with Saul, Jonathan was bound to David in close friendship,  * and loved him as much as he loved himself.  *2 Saul kept David with him from that day on and did not let him return to his father’s house.

3 Jonathan made a covenant with David  * because he loved him as much as himself.

3 Jonathan made a covenant with David  * because he loved him as much as himself.

1 David asked, "Is there anyone remaining from the family of Saul I can show kindness  * to for Jonathan’s sake? "  *

16 But Ruth replied:

Don’t plead with me to abandon you

or to return and not follow you.

For wherever you go, I will go,

and wherever you live, I will live;

your people will be my people,

and your God will be my God.

17 Where you die, I will die,

and there I will be buried.

May the Lord punish me,  *

and do so severely,

if anything but death separates you and me.

23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,  *,* and he was called God’s friend.  *

14 A despairing man should receive loyalty from his friends,  *,*

even if he abandons the fear of the Almighty.

4 You adulterous people!  * Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.  *

9 Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their efforts. 10 For if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up.

10 For if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up.

12 And if someone overpowers one person, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not easily broken.

9 Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their efforts.

1 How delightfully good

when brothers live together in harmony!  *

1 How delightfully good

when brothers live together in harmony!  *

2 It is like fine oil on the head,

running down on the beard,

running down Aaron’s beard

onto his robes.  *

3 It is like the dew of Hermon  *

falling on the mountains of Zion.  *

For there the  Lord has appointed the blessing —

life forevermore.  *

6 God provides homes for those who are deserted.

He leads out the prisoners to prosperity,  *

but the rebellious live in a scorched land.  *

19 honor your father and your mother; and love your neighbor as yourself.*,*

33 Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."

33 Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."