
(Genesis 1:26) Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…”
(Proverbs 17:17) A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
(Proverbs 18:24) A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
(Proverbs 25:20) Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on soda.
(Proverbs 27:5-6) Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
(Proverbs 27:9) Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
(Proverbs 27:17) Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
(John 15:13-17) Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
(John 13:35) By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
(Matthew 11:19) The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, “Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!”
I.
(Genesis 1:26) Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…”
II.
(Proverbs 27:9) Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel. (Proverbs 18:24) A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. (Proverbs 27:5-6) Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend…
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(John 15:13-15) Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.