Bible Verses about 'God as friend'
- A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity. - As iron sharpens iron,
So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. - Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
Nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away. - A man who has friends must himself be friendly,
But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. - To him who is afflicted, kindness should be shown by his friend,
Even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty. - Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
- Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.
- He who walks uprightly,
And works righteousness,
And speaks the truth in his heart;
He who does not backbite with his tongue,
Nor does evil to his neighbor,
Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend. - As free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
- For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
- And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
- Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
- Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the Lord our God, as He has commanded us.
- I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. - As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God. - For You, O God, have tested us;
You have refined us as silver is refined. - Set me as a seal upon your heart,
As a seal upon your arm;
For love is as strong as death,
Jealousy as cruel as the grave;
Its flames are flames of fire,
A most vehement flame. - Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.
- My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God? - Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
- I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies,
As much as in all riches. - But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.
- He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
- As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us. - May the Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He not leave us nor forsake us.
- And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as upon us at the beginning.
- There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
- And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
- For it is written:
“As I live, says the Lord,
Every knee shall bow to Me,
And every tongue shall confess to God.” - And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
- Therefore I will look to the Lord;
I will wait for the God of my salvation;
My God will hear me. - For who is God, except the Lord?
And who is a rock, except our God? - Seek good and not evil,
That you may live;
So the Lord God of hosts will be with you,
As you have spoken. - For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
- But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.
- As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
- You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.
- For who is God, except the Lord?
And who is a rock, except our God? - If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.
- He who covers a transgression seeks love,
But he who repeats a matter separates friends. - Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
- Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people He has chosen as His own inheritance. - And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
- Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them.
- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- Let my teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
As raindrops on the tender herb,
And as showers on the grass. - “Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the Lord,
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.” - Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
- As for God, His way is perfect;
The word of the Lord is proven;
He is a shield to all who trust in Him. - For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
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