Bible Verses about 'God as friend'
- A friend loves at all times,
and kinsfolk are born to share adversity. - Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent;
do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is nearby
than kindred who are far away. - Those who withhold kindness from a friend
forsake the fear of the Almighty. - Some friends play at friendship
but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. - Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
- Iron sharpens iron,
and one person sharpens the wits of another. - Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
- One who forgives an affront fosters friendship,
but one who dwells on disputes will alienate a friend. - Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right,
and speak the truth from their heart;
who do not slander with their tongue,
and do no evil to their friends,
nor take up a reproach against their neighbors. - Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.
- If we diligently observe this entire commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, we will be in the right.
- As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.
- No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
- Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved by him, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly explaining the word of truth.
- I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have being. - As a deer longs for flowing streams,
so my soul longs for you, O 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. - For you, O God, have tested us;
you have tried us as silver is tried. - For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
- Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
- Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame. - So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God; for those who enter God's rest also cease from their labors as God did from his.
- My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and behold
the face of God? - God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God.
- I delight in the way of your decrees
as much as in all riches. - Who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross. - The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors; may he not leave us or abandon us.
- As far as the east is from the west,
so far he removes our transgressions from us. - Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
- And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning.
- So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. - And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.
- For it is written,
“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,
and every tongue shall give praise to God.” - For who is God except the Lord?
And who is a rock besides our God? - And live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
- As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
- For who is God, but the Lord?
And who is a rock, except our God? - Know then in your heart that as a parent disciplines a child so the Lord your God disciplines you.
- Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen as his heritage. - Seek good and not evil,
that you may live;
and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you,
just as you have said. - Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
- For in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
- The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.
- Then the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our lasting good, so as to keep us alive, as is now the case.
- O God, you are my God, I seek you,
my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. - Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.
- If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
- Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
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