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It is important to interpret Bible verses in their Scriptural context. Many people rip Scripture passages out of their context and misinterpret them.
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20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
View on BibleGateway17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
View on BibleGateway3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
View on BibleGateway13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
View on BibleGateway28 A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
View on BibleGateway24 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
View on BibleGateway4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt.
View on BibleGateway11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
View on BibleGateway3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
View on BibleGateway24 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
View on BibleGateway2 And Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel." But Elisha said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.
View on BibleGateway11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
View on BibleGateway20 Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
View on BibleGateway5 A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,
View on BibleGateway24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, 25 lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
View on BibleGateway9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! 11 Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? 12 And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him--a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
View on BibleGateway5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
View on BibleGateway12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
View on BibleGateway12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
View on BibleGateway17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
View on BibleGateway26 One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
View on BibleGateway20 My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, 21 that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.
View on BibleGateway3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
View on BibleGateway4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt.
View on BibleGateway2 And Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel." But Elisha said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.
View on BibleGateway11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
View on BibleGateway20 My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, 21 that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.
View on BibleGateway26 One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
View on BibleGateway20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
View on BibleGateway28 A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
View on BibleGateway17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
View on BibleGateway17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
View on BibleGateway24 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
View on BibleGateway24 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
View on BibleGateway20 Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
View on BibleGateway24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, 25 lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
View on BibleGateway5 A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,
View on BibleGateway5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
View on BibleGateway9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! 11 Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? 12 And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him--a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
View on BibleGateway12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
View on BibleGateway3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
View on BibleGateway13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
View on BibleGateway12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
View on BibleGateway11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
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