Bible Verses about 'God as friend'
- A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a time of adversity. - Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family,
and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you—
better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away. - Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend
forsakes the fear of the Almighty. - One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. - You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
- Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children.
- Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.
- As iron sharpens iron,
so one person sharpens another. - And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.
- Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
- I will sing to the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. - Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
- The one whose walk is blameless,
who does what is righteous,
who speaks the truth from their heart;
whose tongue utters no slander,
who does no wrong to a neighbor,
and casts no slur on others. - For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
- And walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
- Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.
- Whoever would foster love covers over an offense,
but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends. - But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord,
I wait for God my Savior;
my God will hear me. - As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God. - It is written: ‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’ - Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross! - Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
- As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us. - As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning.
- May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our ancestors; may he never leave us nor forsake us.
Bible verse of the day
With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors,but through knowledge the righteous escape.