A friend loves at all times;
and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:17
family | relationships
A man of many companions may be ruined,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24
family
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13
love | sacrifice
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.
Ecclesiastes 4:10
relationships | neighbor
See how good and how pleasant it is
for brothers to live together in unity!
Psalm 133:1
community | family
He who covers an offense promotes love;
but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
Proverbs 17:9
forgiveness
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7
love | neighbor | rebirth
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:12
relationships | strength
Iron sharpens iron;
so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.
Proverbs 27:17
relationships | mind
A perverse man stirs up strife.
A whisperer separates close friends.
Proverbs 16:28
relationships | mind
To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend;
even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Job 6:14
awe | neighbor
This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
1 John 4:21
law | love
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
Ecclesiastes 4:9
relationships | work
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
1 Corinthians 15:33
evil | goodness
Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend.
Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster.
A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.
Proverbs 27:10
family | neighbor
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established; that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
Romans 1:11-12
strength | encouragement | faith
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:4
sin | God | world
God sets the lonely in families.
He brings out the prisoners with singing,
but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
Psalm 68:6
freedom | obedience | punishment