Amizade

A amizade é um dos dons mais preciosos da vida. A Bíblia celebra amizades profundas — Davi e Jônatas, Rute e Noemi, Paulo e Timóteo — modelos de lealdade, fé e amor.

Valor da amizade

Há amigo mais chegado do que um irmão. Em todo tempo ama o amigo. A amizade verdadeira permanece nas tempestades.

Amizade cristã

Vós sois meus amigos se fazeis o que eu mando. Jesus nos chama de amigos — que honra imensa e responsabilidade!

13 Greater love has no one than this, that one should lay down his life on behalf of his friends.

João 15:13

13 Greater love has no one than this, that one should lay down his life on behalf of his friends.

João 15:13

15 No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things which I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

João 15:15

12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

João 15:12

10 Be warmly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor preferring one another;

Romanos 12:10

11 For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be established-12 that is, that I may be encouraged together with you through the mutual faith both of you and me.

Romanos 1:11,12

7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; and everyone that loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 João 4:7

11 Beloved, if in this way God loved us, indeed we ought to love one another.12 No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

1 João 4:11,12

21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God should love his brother also.

1 João 4:21

Exemplos bíblicos

Davi e Jônatas fizeram aliança de amizade. Rute se apegou a Noemi. Abraão foi chamado amigo de Deus.

23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."And he was called a friend of God.

Tiago 2:23

4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God.

Tiago 4:4