Bible Verses about 'God as friend'
- As iron sharpens iron,
so a friend sharpens a friend. - A friend is always loyal,
and a brother is born to help in time of need. - There are “friends” who destroy each other,
but a real friend sticks closer than a brother. - Never abandon a friend—
either yours or your father’s.
When disaster strikes, you won’t have to ask your brother for assistance.
It’s better to go to a neighbor than to a brother who lives far away. - One should be kind to a fainting friend,
but you accuse me without any fear of the Almighty. - You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.
- Dear friend, I hope all is well with you and that you are as healthy in body as you are strong in spirit.
- Those who lead blameless lives and do what is right,
speaking the truth from sincere hearts.
Those who refuse to gossip
or harm their neighbors
or speak evil of their friends. - So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.
- I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.
- I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.
I will praise my God to my last breath! - As the deer longs for streams of water,
so I long for you, O God. - For you are free, yet you are God’s slaves, so don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.
- Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins.
- As for me, I look to the Lord for help.
I wait confidently for God to save me,
and my God will certainly hear me. - I have rejoiced in your laws
as much as in riches. - For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
- Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
its jealousy as enduring as the grave.
Love flashes like fire,
the brightest kind of flame. - Though he was God,
he did not think of equality with God
as something to cling to.
Instead, he gave up his divine privileges;
he took the humble position of a slave
and was born as a human being.
When he appeared in human form,
he humbled himself in obedience to God
and died a criminal’s death on a cross. - He has removed our sins as far from us
as the east is from the west. - Therefore, accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory.
- Our God is in the heavens,
and he does as he wishes. - For the Scriptures say,
“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bend to me,
and every tongue will declare allegiance to God.’” - All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God.
- I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I go and stand before him? - Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children.
- “As I began to speak,” Peter continued, “the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as he fell on us at the beginning.”
- May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our ancestors; may he never leave us or abandon us.
- But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
- Love prospers when a fault is forgiven,
but dwelling on it separates close friends. - Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.
- We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.
God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. - “Come now, let’s settle this,”
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
I will make them as white as snow.
Though they are red like crimson,
I will make them as white as wool.” - Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.
- For who is God except the Lord?
Who but our God is a solid rock? - So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world.
- Think about it: Just as a parent disciplines a child, the Lord your God disciplines you for your own good.
- For who is God except the Lord?
Who but our God is a solid rock? - What joy for the nation whose God is the Lord,
whose people he has chosen as his inheritance. - Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.
- You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate.
- Do what is good and run from evil
so that you may live!
Then the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies will be your helper,
just as you have claimed. - Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.
- You have tested us, O God;
you have purified us like silver. - For we will be counted as righteous when we obey all the commands the Lord our God has given us.
- The shepherds went back to their flocks, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen. It was just as the angel had told them.
- In the beginning the Word already existed.
The Word was with God,
and the Word was God. - Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
- Our hearts ache, but we always have joy. We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others. We own nothing, and yet we have everything.
- When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before!
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