Friendship

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here.

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good”; and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.