Amizade

24 Some friendships do* not last, but some friends are more loyal than brothers.

24 Some friendships do* not last, but some friends are more loyal than brothers.

17 *Friends always show their love. What are relatives for if not to share trouble?

17 *Friends always show their love. What are relatives for if not to share trouble?

9 If you want people to like you, forgive them when they wrong you. Remembering wrongs can break up a friendship.

17 People learn from one another, just as iron sharpens iron.

17 People learn from one another, just as iron sharpens iron.

9 Perfume and fragrant oils make you feel happier, but trouble shatters your peace of mind.*

9 Perfume and fragrant oils make you feel happier, but trouble shatters your peace of mind.*

10 Do not forget your friends or your father’s friends. If you are in trouble, don’t ask a relative for help; a nearby neighbor can help you more than relatives who are far away.

10 Do not forget your friends or your father’s friends. If you are in trouble, don’t ask a relative for help; a nearby neighbor can help you more than relatives who are far away.

5 Better to correct someone openly than to let him think you don’t care for him at all.

6 Friends mean well, even when they hurt you. But when an enemy puts his arm around your shoulder—watch out!

20 *Keep company with the wise and you will become wise. If you make friends with stupid people, you will be ruined.

28 *Gossip is spread by wicked people; they stir up trouble and break up friendships.

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24 Don’t make friends with people who have hot, violent tempers. 25 You might learn their habits and not be able to change.

13 The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them.

13 The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them.

15 I do not call you servants any longer, because servants do not know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I heard from my Father.

12 *My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you.

10 Love one another warmly as Christians, and be eager to show respect for one another.

11 For I want very much to see you, in order to share a spiritual blessing with you to make you strong. 12 What I mean is that both you and I will be helped at the same time, you by my faith and I by yours.

God Is Love

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.

11 Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another. 12 *No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in union with us, and his love is made perfect in us.

21 The command that Christ has given us is this: whoever loves God must love others also.

1 Saul and David finished their conversation. After that, Saul’s son Jonathan was deeply attracted to David and came to love him as much as he loved himself. 2 Saul kept David with him from that day on and did not let him go back home. 3 Jonathan swore eternal friendship with David because of his deep affection for him.

3 Jonathan swore eternal friendship with David because of his deep affection for him.

David and Mephibosheth

1 *One day David asked, "Is there anyone left of Saul’s family? If there is, I would like to show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake."

16 But Ruth answered, "Don’t ask me to leave you! Let me go with you. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. 17 Wherever you die, I will die, and that is where I will be buried. May the Lord's worst punishment come upon me if I let anything but death* separate me from you!"

23 *And the scripture came true that said, "Abraham believed God, and because of his faith God accepted him as righteous." And so Abraham was called God’s friend.

14 In trouble* like this I need loyal friends—

whether I’ve forsaken God or not.

4 Unfaithful people! Don’t you know that to be the world’s friend means to be God’s enemy? If you want to be the world’s friend, you make yourself God’s enemy.

9 Two are better off than one, because together they can work more effectively. 10 If one of them falls down, the other can help him up. But if someone is alone and falls, it’s just too bad, because there is no one to help him.

10 If one of them falls down, the other can help him up. But if someone is alone and falls, it’s just too bad, because there is no one to help him.

12 Two people can resist an attack that would defeat one person alone. A rope made of three cords is hard to break.

9 Two are better off than one, because together they can work more effectively.

In Praise of Living in Peace#HEBREW TITLE: By David.

1 How wonderful it is, how pleasant,

for God’s people to live together in harmony!

In Praise of Living in Peace#HEBREW TITLE: By David.

1 How wonderful it is, how pleasant,

for God’s people to live together in harmony!

2 It is like the precious anointing oil

running down from Aaron’s head and beard,

down to the collar of his robes.

3 It is like the dew on Mount Hermon,

falling on the hills of Zion.

That is where the Lord has promised his blessing—

life that never ends.

6 He gives the lonely a home to live in

and leads prisoners out into happy freedom,

but rebels will have to live in a desolate land.

19 *respect your father and your mother; and love your neighbor as you love yourself."

33 Do not be fooled. "Bad companions ruin good character."

33 Do not be fooled. "Bad companions ruin good character."