Bible Verses about 'God as friend'
| A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. | A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity. |
| Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away. | 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. |
| He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty. | To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. |
| A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. | A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. |
| Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. | Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. |
| You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. | 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. |
| Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. | Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance. |
| He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend. | He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart; he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man. |
| And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us. | It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us. |
| Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. | Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. |
| Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. | Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth. |
| For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. | For no prophecy ever came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit. |
| Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. | Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers. |
| I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being. | I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being. |
| Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. | Live as free people, yet not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God. |
| Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. | He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends. |
| And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. | Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance. |
| As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. | As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. |
| But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. | But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. |
| Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. | Who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross. |
| For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. | For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. |
| For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried. | For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined. |
| Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. | Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God. |
| Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. | Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yah. |
| Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. | Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. |
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