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!
No one has greater love than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
No one has greater love than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
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 I have made known to you everything I heard from my Father.
"This is my commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Take the lead in honoring one another.
For I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be established, that is, that while I am among you we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
And this is the commandment we have from him: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Exemplos bíblicos
Davi e Jônatas fizeram aliança de amizade. Rute se apegou a Noemi. Abraão foi chamado amigo de Deus.
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness," and he was called a friend of God.
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? 12 • CT ¦ Whoever 𝔐8Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Companheirismo
Dois são melhores do que um. Quão bom e suave é que os irmãos vivam em união! A amizade fortalece e edifica.
Honor yoʋr father and yoʋr mother, and, Yoʋ shall love yoʋr neighbor as yoʋrself."
Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."
Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."